Consumer Class Again Certified In Target Data Breach Class Action

Mealey's (May 19, 2017, 11:42 AM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — After previous settlement in a class over the 2013 Target Corp. data breaches was rejected by the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a Minnesota federal judge on May 17 granted a renewed certification motion by a class of consumers whose personally identifiable information (PII) was compromised in the breaches, stating that the required “rigorous analysis” confirmed the adequacy of class representation and revealed no intra-class conflict that would render the settlement unfair (In re:  Target Corporation Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, No. 14-2522, D. Minn., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75455)....