Morgan Stanley Data Breach Judge Aims to Clear Possible Conflict

A New York federal judge is asking counsel in a data breach lawsuit against Morgan Stanley to determine whether he is a potential class member in a pending $60 million settlement.

The proposed class doesn’t exclude the court, family members, or court staff, an “unusual aspect” that has resulted in needing to reassign the case to find a judge who isn’t “disabled from supervising” the litigation, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer wrote in an order filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The case has been reassigned five times since the beginning of April, ...