Calif. Privacy Suits Tested Novel Law's Limits In 1st Year

By Allison Grande ( March 23, 2021, 10:21 PM EDT) -- Class action plaintiffs have attempted to stretch the California Consumer Privacy Act's limited lawsuit mechanism through "creative pleading" in the law's inaugural year, with more than half of the 76 lawsuits filed across the state in 2020 failing to allege that a data breach had occurred, according to a report released by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on Tuesday....

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