Christopher Hunter v. loanDepot.com, LLC

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI

WESTERN DIVISION

CHRISTOPHER HUNTER, individually and ) on behalf of all others similarly situated, ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) No. 4:24-cv-00239-DGK )

LOANDEPOT.COM, LLC, )

) Defendant. )

ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTION FOR TRANSFER OF VENUE

This putative class action arises from a data breach involving Plaintiff’s personally identifiable information. Now before the Court is the parties’ joint motion for transfer of venue to the United States District Court for the Central District of California where twenty-one related and overlapping cases against Defendant are already pending. ECF No. 10. The statute governing transfer of venue, 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a), provides in relevant part that “[f]or the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought or to any district or division to which all parties have consented.” By enacting § 1404, Congress gave district courts the discretion to transfer …