Scripps Health Data Breach Suit Dismissal in California Appealed

Scripps Health faces an appeal of a California federal court’s jurisdiction-based dismissal of a class action alleging the health-care provider is liable for failing to safeguard its information networks.

The lawsuit, which stemmed from a 2021 ransomware attack on the second largest health-care provider in San Diego, was dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Jan. 26. Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel said that there were too many Californians in the proposed class to qualify for federal court jurisdiction, siding with Scripps’ argument that the home-state-controversy exception to the Class Action Fairness Act applied.

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