Lawyers who have filed 18 consumer class actions over Yahoo’s data breach are converging on where the litigation should be heard: California’s Northern District and, in particular, before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh.
Their choice of Koh comes as no surprise. Koh previously issued one of the few favorable rulings for plaintiffs in data breach cases, in which consumers—who struggle to show actual injury from the hacks—have generally not fared well. She also sits in San Jose, near Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
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