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Entertainment & Sports

Feb. 19, 2015

Judge OKs consolidation of Sony data breach cases

Without dissent from Sony, Judge R. Gary Klausner took steps Tuesday to combine seven federal lawsuits against the studio into one.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner on Tuesday swiftly took the first steps in consolidating seven separate data breach class action lawsuits filed against Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., greenlighting plaintiffs' lawyers' request to create one amended complaint by March 2.


The judge also verbally indicated that he would acquiesce to plaintiffs' lawyers' request to na...

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