In re: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. and PowerSchool Group, LLC Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

Summary

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation orders the centralization of 32 actions involving the PowerSchool customer data security breach, along with related actions, in the Southern District of California. The Panel finds common factual questions concerning the breach, PowerSchool's data security practices, and notification of affected individuals, and assigns the coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings to Judge Roger T. Benitez. The action identified in the supplied title, White v. PowerSchool Holdings, Inc., is listed on Schedule A as an action transferred from the Eastern District of California.

Holdings

1. The actions listed on Schedule A involve common questions of fact, and centralization under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 will serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the just and efficient conduct of the litigation.
2. The Southern District of California is an appropriate transferee district for the litigation.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the related actions involve common questions of fact warranting centralization under 28 U.S.C. § 1407.
2. Whether centralization would serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the just and efficient conduct of the litigation.
3. Which federal district should serve as the transferee district for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings.

Disposition

other