Blackbaud Again Defeats Class Certification in Data Breach Suit

A federal judge denied plaintiffs’ request for leave to file a second attempt for class certification in a consolidated lawsuit against cloud-services provider Blackbaud Inc.

“Ultimately, the Court finds that allowing successive argument on class certification based on an unchanged record this late in the litigation would be prejudicial to Blackbaud and against the interests of judicial economy,” Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. wrote in an opinion issued Monday in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina.

The lawsuit, which involved 34 named plaintiffs from 20 states asserting nearly 100 federal and state law claims, alleged Blackbaud ...