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

Summary

The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation orders the centralization of 32 actions involving the PowerSchool customer data security breach, along with potential related actions, in the Southern District of California. The Panel assigns the coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings to Judge Roger T. Benitez.

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 means of resolving the litigation.
3. The Southern District of California is an appropriate transferee district.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the related data-breach actions involved 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 was the appropriate transferee district for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings.

Disposition

other