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First Circuit Five: Top 5 Class Action Decisions of 2025

January 28, 2026 by Melanie Conroy

A review of the year’s most impactful privacy, data breach, arbitration, and technology-driven class action rulings from the First Circuit and the District of Massachusetts. The First Circuit and the District of Massachusetts issued consequential class action decisions in 2025 that are likely to shape the trajectory of privacy, data breach, arbitration, and technology-driven litigation […]

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First Circuit Rejects Post-Data Breach Indemnification Claims Against Technology Vendor

January 7, 2026 / January 6, 2026 by Melanie Conroy

The First Circuit recently affirmed a District of Massachusetts decision granting summary judgment in litigation arising from a 2018 data breach involving protected health information (PHI). In Axis Insurance Co. v. Barracuda Networks, Inc., the court held that the plaintiff could not establish equitable indemnification or contractual liability under Massachusetts law. The decision reinforces limits […]

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