Douglas J. McNamara

In re MGM Resorts International Data Breach Litigation

In re MGM Resorts International Data Breach Litigation (D. Nev.): On February 1, 2021, Cohen Milstein’s Douglas J. McNamara was appointed Co-Lead Interim Class Counsel in this consolidated data breach class action against MGM Resorts for failing to implement reasonable data security practices, thereby allowing the personal information of between 10.6 million and 142 million MGM hotel guests and customers to be stolen on or about July 7, 2019.

In re Blackbaud, Inc., Customer Data Breach Litigation

In re Blackbaud, Inc., Customer Data Breach Litigation (D.S.C.): On February 16, 2021, Cohen Milstein was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in this data breach class action in which Plaintiffs claim that Blackbaud failed to take reasonable steps to prevent a data beach, starting in February 2020, and failed to promptly or accurately provide notice of the data breach to those affected.

In re Marriott International Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

In re Marriott International Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (D. Md.): Cohen Milstein serves as Co-Lead Counsel to oversee a putative nationwide class action related to the data breach of personal information of nearly 400 million customers of Starwood-branded hotels, subsequently acquired by Marriott in 2016, making it one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history.

AT&T Data Breach Litigation

Unruh, et al. v. AT&T Mobility LLC (N.D. Ga.): Cohen Milstein is representing a putative class of AT&T customers, whose names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and other personally identifiable information (PII) were the subject of a massive data breach. Plaintiffs claim that upon learning of the breach in August 2021 when hackers auctioned the database of 70 million customers’ PII in an online hacking forum, AT&T denied the breach ever occurred and refused to investigate. Three years later when the contents of the database were publicly leaked on the dark web and independently verified did AT&T admit the breach occurred and began an investigation.

Baus, et al. v. Ford Motor Company

Baus, et al. v. Ford Motor Company (E.D. Mich.): Cohen Milstein represents plaintiffs who purchased or leased vehicles manufactured by Ford Motor Company in a consolidated breach of warranty and deceptive and fraudulent business practices class action against Ford Motor Company. Plaintiffs bring their claims under the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act and the consumer fraud statutes of their respective states, related to Ford’s manufacture and sale of defective Ford F-150 pickup trucks, Model Years 2018-2020 equipped with 5.0L engines.

Herrera et al v. JFK Medical Center Limited Partnership and HCA, Inc.

Herrera v. JFK Medical Center and HCA, Inc. (M.D. Fla.): Cohen Milstein was lead counsel in a class action lawsuit alleging that four Florida plaintiffs and others like them were billed inflated and exorbitant fees for emergency radiology services, in excess of the amount allowed by law, covered in part by their mandatory Florida Personal Injury Protection insurance. When the district court struck plaintiffs’ class claims, Ms. Martin successfully petitioned the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to accept immediate appellate review and obtained a reversal of the district court’s order. Cohen Milstein resolved the case and secured final approval of a $220 million injunctive relief settlement.

In Re: Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation

In re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation (N.D. Cal.): On March 17, 2021, the Court granted final approval of a $500 million settlement fund, which the Court called one of the largest class action settlements in the Ninth Circuit. Apple will use the fund to pay impacted owners of Apple’s iPhone SE, 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, and 7 Plus who claimed that Apple failed to disclose material information about Apple’s iOS software operating system updates. Douglas McNamara was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee and was co-chair of the Expert Committee.

NAACP DACA Litigation

Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al. (S. Ct. No. 18-587): On June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump Administration’s plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, preserving immigration protections for approximately 650,000 current DACA recipients and opening the door for at least 130,000 new applicants to seek the protections afforded by DACA. Cohen Milstein represented the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and the American Federation of Teachers in one of three cases consolidated before the Supreme Court.