Sundance Consumers Advance Lawsuit Over Sale of Transaction Data

Sundance Holdings Group LLC must face a proposed class action alleging it sold customers’ personal information in violation of a Utah consumer-protection law, despite that law’s bar on class actions, a federal court ruled.

A federal district court is required to entertain a class action once a plaintiff makes the required showings under Rule 23 of the federal rules of civil procedure unless doing so would abridge, enlarge, or modify a substantive right, Judge Robert J. Shelby of the US District Court for the District of Utah said Monday.

Because the bar on class actions in the statute at issue, ...