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 customer data-security breach actions involving PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. and PowerSchool Group LLC, along with related actions, in the Southern District of California under MDL No. 3149. The Panel assigns the coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings to Judge Roger T. Benitez and identifies common factual issues concerning the breach, data-security practices, and notification of affected individuals.

Holdings

1. The actions involve common questions of fact, and centralization will serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the just and efficient conduct of the litigation.
2. Informal coordination was not the most efficient method for resolving the litigation.
3. 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