Please Hold Your Applause: How Clapper v. Amnesty International USA Deters Data Breach Litigants from Seeking a Judicial Remedy

• Author: Harrison M. Martin
• Pages: 886-916

Louisiana Law Review Louisiana Law Review

Volume 80

Number 3

Spring 2020

Article 11

9-15-2020

Please Hold Your Applause: How Clapper v. Amnesty International Please Hold Your Applause: How Clapper v. Amnesty International

USA Deters Data Breach Litigants from Seeking a Judicial USA Deters Data Breach Litigants from Seeking a Judicial

Remedy Remedy

Harrison M. Martin

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Please Hold Your Applause: How Clapper v. Amnesty International USA Deters Data

Breach Litigants from Seeking a Judicial Remedy

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Please Hold Your Applause: How Clapper v. Amnesty

International USA Deters Data Breach Litigants from

Seeking a Judicial Remedy

Harrison M. Martin

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction.................................................................................. 886

I. Overview of Data Breaches and Article III Standing................... 889

A. Brief Overview of Data Breaches.......................................... 889

B. Standing Principles ................................................................ 891

II. The Effects of Ovation—

How Clapper v. Amnesty International USA

Changed the Standing Analysis.................................................... 892

A. Pre-Clapper Prelude for Data Breach Litigants..................... 893

B. Clapper v. Amnesty International USA.................................. 895

III. The Claptermath........................................................................... 898

A. Data Breach Cases Confined to Narrow

Interpretations of Clapper...................................................... 900

B. Broad Interpretations of Clapper in

Data Breach Cases ................................................................. 902

IV. Available Approaches to Confer Standing to

Data Breach Litigants................................................................... 906

A. Data Breach Standing—More Ways than One ...................... 907

B. Standing Salvation Through Statutory Reformation.............. 909

C. Judicial Review for Data Breach Litigation .......................... 912

V. Conclusion.................................................................................... 913

Copyright 2020, by HARRISON M. MARTIN.

 I would like to thank Professor John Devlin and the Louisiana Law

Review Editorial Board for their guidance in writing this Comment. Special thanks

to my parents and brothers for their support, Blakeley for her encouragement, and

Brian Eno, whose discography fueled my writing process.