On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington, D.C., dismissed two consolidated class actions by more than 21 million federal employees whose most sensitive personal information was exposed in four breaches of Office of Personnel Management databases. Judge Jackson concluded the federal employees could not establish their threshold right to sue in federal court because they had not shown they faced imminent risk of identity theft, even though nearly two dozen of those named in the class actions claimed their confidential information has already been misused.
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