Legal Opinion
In Re Hannaford Bros. Co. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided September 21, 2010No. Docket: Fed-09-586PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJabar, J.
[¶ 1] The United States District Court for the District of Maine (Hornby, J.), acting pursuant to 4 M.R.S. § 57 (2009) and M.R.App. P. 25, has certified two questions of state law to this Court for review. These questions arise from a mul-ti-count complaint filed against Hannaford Bros. Co. by customers whose financial information was stolen during a breach of Hannaford’s computer system and who expended time and effort to identify and remediate fraudulent charges on their credit and debit card accounts. The questions certified are:(1) “In the absence of physical harm or economic loss or…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- EMC Mortgage Corp. v. Jones, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2008
- Wayne v. Farm Family Mutual InsuranceSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1993
- Rubin v. Matthews International Corp.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1986
- Walter v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2000
- Maine Energy Recovery Co. v. United Steel Structures, Inc.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1999
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Anderson v. Hannaford Bros. Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2011
- Gordon v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.District Court, D. Colorado · 2018
- In re Gen. Motors LLCDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 2018
- In re Hannaford Bros.District Court, D. Maine · 2013
- In re Heartland Payment Systems, Inc.District Court, S.D. Texas · 2011
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