The Home Depot Inc. is the latest retailer to report a security breach that might have compromised 56 million customers’ credit card data. The courts have not always been kind to legal claims arising from these incidents.
For example, on Sept. 11, Marsha Pechman, chief judge for the Western District of Washington, dismissed most plaintiffs in Mendoza v. Microsoft, filed by former X-Box Live subscribers who claimed Microsoft retained and disclosed their personal information. Pechman ordered arbitration of two of the plaintiffs’ claims. And on Sept. 16, U.S. District Judge James Zagel of the Northern District of Illinois dismissed Remijas v. The Neiman Marcus Group, which followed a 2013 breach.
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