Legal Opinion
Tierney v. Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 2015No. 14-3168PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
In July 2013 burglars stole four desktop computers from one of Defendant Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation’s administrative offices in Illinois. The computers contained unencrypted private data relating to approximately four million Advocate patients. Six of the affected patients brought this putative class action alleging that Advocate did too little to safeguard their information.
The plaintiffs asserted claims for willful and negligent violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (the “Act” or “FCRA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq., and state-law claims for…
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