Overview
Law360 and Cook County Record covered Steptoe’s win for VTech North America LLC in a class action lawsuit filed over a 2015 data breach of VTech’s customer information. On April 18, an Illinois federal judge again tossed a consolidated proposed class action against VTech over a breach that compromised the data of 11 million adults and children. This is Steptoe’s second significant victory in this case, in a jurisdiction that has been largely pro-plaintiff in recent data breach cases.
The Steptoe team included Chicago partners Michael Dockterman, Jay Nuttall and Jeremy Goldkind, associate Dan Raymond, and New York partner Michael Vatis.
The full articles can be read at Law360 and Cook County Record.