CareFirst data-breach victims will urge Supreme Court to uphold class-action suit

CareFirst customers will be filing with the Supreme Court next week in defense of a lower court ruling that allowed a class-action lawsuit to proceed based on the possibility of harm from a massive data breach, in a case that could be the first to reach the high court and set corporate responsibilities for protecting consumer data.

“This case presents an ideal vehicle for the [Supreme] Court to clarify that to satisfy the substantial risk standard, an alleged future injury...