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Standing In The Ether: Constitutional Standing In Data Breach Cases After Mcmorris, Andrew Ridge
Standing In The Ether: Constitutional Standing In Data Breach Cases After Mcmorris, Andrew Ridge
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
For some time, circuit courts have been ostensibly divided over the power of plaintiffs to maintain claims for injuries sustained from data breaches based merely on an increased risk of injury. However, in McMorris v. Carlos Lopez & Assocs., LLC, 995 F.3d 295 (2d Cir. 2021), the Second Circuit denied the existence of the circuit split, instead contending that its three-factor balancing test for determining standing for risk of future injury in data breach cases could be reconciled with the positions of both clusters of circuits. The three factors are “(1) whether the plaintiffs’ data has been exposed as the …