( December 17, 2024, 2:45 PM EST) -- BOSTON — In a pair of rulings, a Massachusetts federal judge declined to dismiss six of the consolidated lawsuits filed over the theft of medical data that occurred due to vulnerabilities in a file-transfer software program, finding that the home-state exception to the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) did not apply and concluding that plaintiffs in all but four of the hundreds of cases in the multidistrict litigation had sufficiently established standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution....