Home Depot on Monday fired back against allegations that it sent out misleading notices to potential class members in litigation over massive customer data breach.
The company claimed that lawyers for the financial institutions suing the Atlanta-based home improvement chain have made "significant factual misstatements and misrepresentations" about Home Depot's role in the communications.
"Home Depot did not send or authorize and was not even aware of" notices announcing a settlement with MasterCard International Inc. that were sent to financial institutions that are either plaintiffs or potential plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation, wrote lawyers at Atlanta's Alston & Bird defending Home Depot. They asked U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. to disregard a Nov. 30 motion by the financial institutions for what Home Depot's lawyers claim is a "Draconian order" that would limit how Home Depot communicates with financial institutions and order significant disclosures about the apparent settlement.
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