High Court Won’t Decide ‘Average’ Class Damages Issue In Chili’s Data Breach Suit

(April 29, 2024, 2:01 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A question about the propriety of using an “average” damages amount suggested by the plaintiffs’ damages expert to certify a class will go unheard by the U.S. Supreme Court, which in its April 29 order list denied a petition for certiorari by the owner of the Chili’s restaurant chain, which protested the possibility that customers who suffered no damages at all in a 2018 data breach would still receive these damages awards....