Samantha Hawkins reports:
A proposed class action against Scripps Health over a 2021 data breach was thrown out of federal court Wednesday, when a Southern District of California judge said too many Californians meant it lacked jurisdiction.
Surprised? I was. But Hawkins explains:
But because most—96.3%—of the 144,011 individuals notified about the ransomware attack had California addresses, Scripps argued for the home-state-controversy exception to the federal Class Action Fairness Act’s jurisdictional requirements.
Read more at Bloomberg Law (subscription required).