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April 21, 2026
A California federal judge has declined to let Franklin Templeton escape a suit claiming it loaded its $2.2 billion 401(k) plan with underperforming proprietary funds that carried pricey fees, ruling a group of workers backed their claims with valid comparisons.
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April 21, 2026
Seven HVAC companies, including Rheem, Trane, Carrier, Lennox and Bosch, engaged in price-fixing and inventory manipulation using the COVID-19 pandemic as a cover, an HVAC contractor alleged in a civil antitrust suit filed in Michigan federal court.
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April 21, 2026
An attorney for the Federal Housing Finance Agency told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday that the agency had clear authority to act in its own interest as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the wake of the 2008 housing market crash rather than prioritize the interest of the companies' shareholders.
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April 21, 2026
The Second Circuit on Tuesday seemed reluctant to restart proceedings in a long-running suit against Cigna from retirees who challenged changes to their pensions, appearing unwilling to upend a decision to turn down post-judgment discovery in the class action.
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April 21, 2026
Attorneys for a class of young asylum-seekers told a Maryland federal judge the U.S. government should be held in contempt for brazenly violating a settlement agreement and deporting class members to countries they fled without first deciding their asylum applications.
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April 21, 2026
Students in an antitrust case against Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and other elite schools have asked an Illinois federal judge to appoint trial lawyer Steven F. Molo and his firm MoloLamken LLP as lead counsel, touting his courtroom experience and the firm's track record in high-stakes complex litigation.
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April 21, 2026
Kemper Corp. was hit with at least three proposed class actions Monday in Illinois federal court by former employees who alleged that the insurance giant failed to stop a preventable cyberattack led by the hacking group known as ShinyHunters last week that released more than 13 million records and their sensitive information on the dark web.
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April 21, 2026
Georgia's highest court seemed to struggle Tuesday with whether it had the authority to tell a federal judge if residents suing chlorine products company Bio-Lab Inc. over the aftermath of a 2024 fire could ask for medical monitoring as part of their class action.
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April 21, 2026
A group of nurses urged a Colorado federal judge to grant preliminary approval to a $14 million class action settlement resolving claims that their employer failed to properly calculate overtime and provide required breaks.
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April 21, 2026
Chartwell Law Offices LLP urged a Florida federal court to toss a former attorney's suit claiming she was unlawfully fired because she's a Pakistani Muslim critical of Israel's military action in Gaza, arguing that the ex-employee was terminated because her inflammatory social media posts made colleagues feel unsafe.
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April 21, 2026
A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a putative class action accusing Stellantis of selling certain Dodge Chargers and Chrysler 300 vehicles with interior door panels prone to warping, after the car company and its customers stipulated to end the case following earlier rulings that had narrowed the claims to a single cause of action.
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April 21, 2026
A Florida condominium association urged a state appellate court Tuesday to reverse a decision certifying a class of individuals displaced by a Miami structure fire, arguing the group of residents allegedly affected by the incident wasn't properly defined.
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April 21, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge has greenlit a $20 million fee request from attorneys who secured an $84 million settlement in a suit claiming Wells Fargo violated federal benefits law by using dividends earned by its employee stock ownership fund to offset its 401(k) contributions.
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April 20, 2026
Armistice Capital's founder, who is facing investor claims that the hedge fund dumped its artificially inflated shares in pharmaceutical company Vaxart for $250 million, told a California federal jury Monday that during a physical therapy session held over Skype, he accidentally deleted key text messages with another Armistice executive.
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April 20, 2026
An Illinois federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging Northwestern University's photographers capture and collect without permission the biometrics of people attending its events and then share the sensitive data with the SpotMyPhotos platform, but will allow the plaintiff to rework his complaint to provide more detailed allegations.
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April 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania state court has booted Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys from representing consumers in nine cases that link Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder to ovarian cancer, saying their pro hac vice admission was inappropriate given the firm's dealings with an attorney who previously represented the company.
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April 20, 2026
A Paramount Global newsletter subscriber is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to refrain from limiting the reach of the Video Privacy Protection Act to only consumers that directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services, arguing that such a narrow application would require a rewrite of the decades-old statute.
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April 20, 2026
A Washington federal judge on Monday denied two consumers' bid to certify insurance coverage questions to the Evergreen State's highest court in a lawsuit accusing insurers of failing to defend a now-defunct timeshare exit company from an unfair business practices class action that resulted in a $630 million deal.
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April 20, 2026
A Washington state appeals court declined to revive a hotel trade group's class action seeking tax relief over the governor's COVID-19 emergency declaration in 2020, ruling Monday that the pandemic doesn't qualify as a "natural disaster" under state law.
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April 20, 2026
Retirement plan participants have hit hospital system Providence Health & Services with a proposed class action accusing the Washington-based nonprofit of losing nearly $70 million in assets by sticking with an underperforming mutual fund that lagged behind similar investment options.
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April 20, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a California federal judge's decision refusing to let a group of 185 Chrome users intervene in a privacy class action accusing Google of improperly collecting and misusing data from users browsing in Incognito mode, saying the proposed intervenors were "too little, too late."
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April 20, 2026
A California federal magistrate judge overseeing discovery in a group of writers' proposed copyright class action against Nvidia ordered the multitrillion-dollar AI chipmaker to produce basic discovery information within a month, saying "it isn't that complicated" and that she's "astonished" and "puzzled" by Nvidia's monthslong delays.
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April 20, 2026
A group of employees of a Buffalo, New York-area hospital network can't prove their employer violated federal benefits law when it switched them from a pension plan to a cash-balance plan in the late 1990s, the company argued, asking a federal judge to toss the suit.
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April 20, 2026
Singapore swim-school operator Fitness Champs Holdings Ltd. was hit with a proposed class action accusing it of concealing a social media-driven "pump-and-dump" scheme in which stock promoters posed as financial advisers to hype the stock through online forums, destroying the company's market capitalization after the shares were dumped.
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April 20, 2026
State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. has told a California federal judge that a jury must hear all its claims in a bellwether trial next month as it seeks to hold Hyundai Motor America liable for allegedly selling theft-prone vehicles that heightened the risk of insurance claims.