Doe v. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: January 5, 2024
• Docket: 2:23-cv-01893
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF 7 WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 8 | JOHN DOE, on behalf of his minor child JACK g | DOE, and on behalf of others similarly situated, NO. 2:23-cv-01893-JHC 10 Plaintiff, y ORDER GRANTING JOINT ll MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE 17 | FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: RELATED CASES UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL 13. | OF MEDICINE: UW MEDICAL CENTER: HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER: 14 || VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER: UW PHYSICIANS: UW NEIGHBORHOOD 15 | CLINICS(d/b/a UW MEDICINE PRIMARY 16 | CARE): AIRLIFT NORTHWEST; and CHILDREN’S UNIVERSITY MEDICAL 17 | GROUP, 18 Defendants. 19 ROBERT AYERS, individually and on behalf of 20 | all others similarly situated, NO. 2:23-cv-01916-JHC 21 Plaintiff, 22 Vv. 23 | FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER, 24 Defendant. 25 26

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1 | JONATHAN HUNTER, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, NO. 2:23-cv-01988-JHC 2 3 Plaintiff, v. 4 5 FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation, 6 Defendant. 7 g | GARY HOLZ, JOEL GUAY, and GLORIA MONCRIEF, individually and on behalf of all NO. 2:23-cv-01998-JHC 9 | others similarly situated, 10 Plaintiff,

12 || FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation, 13 Defendant. 14 15 This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiffs’ Unopposed Joint Motion to 16 Consolidate. (Dkt. No. 5.) The plaintiffs mm four different actions filed against Defendant Fred 17 Hutchinson Cancer Center ask the Court to consolidate all four into a single action. Having 18 reviewed the Motion and all supporting materials, and having noted the lack of any opposition, 19 the Court GRANTS the Motion and ORDERS that the above-captioned cases be consolidated 20 for all purposes. 21 l. Under Rule 42(a), the Court may consolidate cases that involve common 22 questions of law or fact. Fed. R. Civ. P. 42(a). The Court enjoys broad discretion in making this 23 determination. Pierce v. County of Orange, 526 F.3d 1190, 1203 (9th Cir. 2008); see also 24 Pedraza v. Alameda Unified Sch. Dist., 676 Fed. App’x 704, 706 (9th Cir. 2017). When 25 determnining whether a motion to consolidate should be granted, this Court typically weighs 26 several factors, including considerations of “judicial economy, whether consolidation would

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1 | expedite resolution of the case, whether separate cases may yield inconsistent results, and the 2 | potential prejudice to a party opposing consolidation.” Pecznick v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. 2:22- 3 | cv-00743, 2022 WL 4483123, at *3 (W.D. Wash. Sept. 27, 2022); see also 9 Charles Alan 4 | Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil § 2383 (3rd ed. 2020). 5 2. Consolidation is appropriate here given that the four actions present common 6 | questions of law and fact and there are substantial efficiencies to be gained. All four actions 7 || concern the same data breach resulting from a cyber-attack on Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. 8 || And plaintiffs pursue the same or similar causes of action against Fred Hutchinson Cancer 9 | Center on behalf of overlapping proposed classes. Consolidation for all purposes will further 10 | conserve party and judicial resources. Fred Hutchinson has not voiced any opposition, and the 11 | Court is unaware of any inconvenience, delay, confusion, or prejudice that may result from 12 | consolidation. As such, the Court GRANTS the Motion and consolidates all four actions. 13 3. All filings in this consolidated action shall be filed on the docket of the first- 14 | filed case (2:23-cv-01893) and use the following caption: Jn re Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 15 | Data Security Litigation. 16 4. Any action subsequently filed in, transferred to, or removed to this Court that 17 | arises out of the same or similar operative facts as the Consolidated Action, shall be 18 | consolidated with the Consolidated Action for pre-trial purposes. The Parties shall file a Notice 19 | of Related Action whenever a case that should be consolidated into this action is filed in, 20 || transferred to, or removed to this District. 21 5. If the Court determines that the case is related, the clerk shall: 22 a. Place a copy of this Order in the separate filed for such action; 23 b. Serve on Plaintiffs’ counsel in the new case a copy of the Order; 24 ce. Direct that this Order be served upon Defendant(s) in the new case: and 25 d. Make appropriate entry in the Master Docket. 26

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1 6. Plaintiffs shall confer and propose a schedule for filing a Consolidated Amended 2 | Complaint no later than ten (10) days following the entry of this Order. 3 7. This Order shall apply to the above-captioned matters, any subsequently 4 | consolidated action, any actions consolidated with the above-captioned matters, and any actions 5 | filed in or transferred or removed to this Court relating to the fact and the data breach 6 | underlying this litigation. 7 g IT IS SO ORDERED. 9 DATED: January 5, 2024 10 c/ oh 4. Chu THE HONORABLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE FOR THE 12 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON Presented By: 13 TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS PLLC 14 By: s/ Kim D. Stephens, P.S. 15 || Kim D. Stephens, P.S., WSBA #11984 Cecily C. Jordan, WSBA #50061 16 || 1200 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700 Seattle, WA 98101 | Telephone: 206-682-5600 Facsimile: 206-682-2992 18 || kstephens@tousley.com cjordan@tousley.com 19 James J. Pizzirusso* 20 | HAUSFELD LLP 888 16th Street N.W. 21 || Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20006 22 | (202) 540-7200 Jpizzirusso@hausfeld.com 23 Steven M. Nathan* 24 | HAUSFELD LLP 33 Whitehall Street 25 || Fourteenth Floor New York, NY 10004 26 || (646) 357-1100 snathan@hausfeld.com

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Ashley M. Crooks* 1 HAUSFELD LLP 33 Whitehall Street 2 Fourteenth Floor New York, NY 10004 3 (646) 357-1100 acrooks@hausfeld.com 4 5 Attorneys for Plaintiff Hunter and the Proposed Class 6 TURKE & STRAUSS LLP 7 8 By: s/ Samuel J. Strauss Samuel J. Strauss, WSBA #46971 9 Raina Borrelli* 613 Williamson St., Suite 201 10 Madison, Wisconsin 53703-3515 Telephone: (608) 237-1775 11 Facsimile: (608) 509 4423 12 sam@turkestrauss.com 13 Attorneys for Plaintiff Doe and the Proposed Class 14 15 Brian C. Gudmundson* Charles R. Toomajian* 16 Michael J. Laird* ZIMMERMAN REED LLP 17 1100 IDS Center 80 South 8th Street 18 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Telephone: (612) 341-0400 19 Facsimile: (612) 341-0844 brian.gudmundson@zimmreed.com 20 charles.toomajian@zimmreed.com michael.laird@zimmreed.com 21 22 Attorneys for Plaintiff Ayers and the Proposed Class 23 24 25 26 EMERY REDDY, PLLC 1 2 By: s/ Timothy W. Emery Timothy W. Emery, WSBA #34078 3 Patrick R. Reddy, WSBA #34092 600 Stewart Street, Suite 1100 4 Seattle, WA 98101 Phone: (206) 442-9106 5 Fax: (206) 441-9711 6 Email: emeryt@emeryreddy.com Email: reddyp@emeryreddy.com 7 M.Anderson Berry* 8 Gregory Haroutunian* Brandon P. Jack* 9 CLAYEO C. ARNOLD 10 A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 865 Howe Avenue 11 Sacramento, CA 95825 Telephone: 916.239.4778 12 Fax: 916.924.1829 13 aberry@justice4you.com gharoutunian@justice4you.com 14 bjack@justice4you.com 15 Gary M. Klinger* MILBERG COLEMAN BRYSON 16 PHILLIPS GROSSMAN LLC 17 227 W. Monroe Street, Suite 2100 Chicago, IL 60606 18 Phone: (866) 252-0878 gklinger@milberg.com 19 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Holtz, Guay, and Moncrief and the Proposed Class 20 21 *pro hac vice forthcoming 22 23 24 25 26