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April 17, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Friday found that a lower court erred in dismissing a proposed class action alleging that Target Corp. sold bedsheets claiming to be 100% cotton with a thread count of 600 or more, which can't be achieved with purely cotton fabric, saying that a reasonable consumer can still be deceived by a physically impossible claim.
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April 17, 2026
A Fanatics sportsbook affiliate has urged a Michigan federal court to deny a bettor's bid for partial summary judgment, arguing that he has no private right to enforce the state gaming rule at issue, lacks standing to assert claims under other states' laws and sought judgment before discovery had even begun.
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April 17, 2026
Lockheed Martin can't escape a proposed class action alleging the company breached fiduciary duties under federal benefits law by offering underperforming proprietary target-date fund offerings in several employee 401(k) plans worth approximately $50 billion, after a New Jersey federal judge largely refused to toss the dispute.
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April 17, 2026
A Texas man suing his ex-girlfriend's out-of-state doctor for prescribing mail-order abortion pills can't prove that the doctor caused the wrongful death of their unborn child, the doctor told a federal court, saying the case should be dismissed because he's not responsible for the woman's actions.
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April 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Aston Martin file an appeal in a row with Chinese carmaker Geely over its winged logo for London black cabs, Ineos sue Ben Ainslie's America's Cup team for a £180 million ($244 million) boat, White & Case face a claim from two energy storage companies, and a golf tour company bring a claim against Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund after the fund invested in its rival.
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April 17, 2026
United Parcel Service Inc. should have to repay consumers for the tariffs they paid on certain imported products following the U.S. Supreme Court's holding that those tariffs weren't authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to a proposed class action filed in Georgia federal court.
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April 17, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Friday refused to revive an ex-Merrill financial adviser's proposed class action claiming he was shorted deferred compensation, backing a lower court's holding that the retention bonuses at issue were exempt from federal benefits law.
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April 17, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has approved a settlement resolving a wage suit alleging that Bank of America Corp. failed to pay workers for time spent booting up and shutting down their computers before and after their shifts.
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April 16, 2026
Twenty-five U.S. states are looking at passing laws to make artificial intelligence companies face liability claims in civil suits if they fail to protect consumers who interact with chatbots, while another three states have already enacted protections, according to a citizens group's new legislative tracker.
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April 16, 2026
A California federal judge indicated Thursday that he won't grant Nvidia Corp.'s request to permanently toss the bulk of a proposed class action by authors who say the artificial intelligence giant unlawfully copied their copyrighted material to develop its LLMs, but will pare some claims with leave to amend.
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April 16, 2026
A program from fintech platform MoneyLion encouraging users to refer friends to the service has flooded Washington residents with unsolicited text messages in violation of the state's Commercial Electronic Mail Act, alleges a putative class action removed to Seattle federal court Wednesday.
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April 16, 2026
San Diego has alleged in a federal lawsuit that fire truck manufacturers REV Group and Oshkosh Corp., along with private equity firm American Industrial Partners, orchestrated an anticompetitive scheme to consolidate the market and charge municipalities across the nation inflated prices.
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April 16, 2026
Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft agreed Thursday to a California federal judge's proposal to bifurcate the trial's liability phase from the remedies phase in a case challenging the artificial intelligence company's conversion to a for-profit entity, and that the jury for the liability phase should serve on an advisory basis.
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April 16, 2026
Former employees of two defunct Boston marijuana dispensaries, both called Pure Oasis, are suing the companies behind the shops and their owners in Massachusetts state court, accusing them of failing to pay out final wages and earned vacation time after the leaders decided to close the shops without warning.
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April 16, 2026
Lemonade will pay $10.5 million to settle with a proposed class of over 190,000 individuals who said the tech-forward insurer's online quote platform negligently disclosed their drivers' license numbers to cybercriminals, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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April 16, 2026
A Washington federal judge held she made a "mistake" when she rejected arguments that an insurer acted in bad faith by declining to defend a now-defunct timeshare exit company from a consumer protection class action that yielded a $630 million deal.
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April 16, 2026
Capital One has been hit with a proposed class action in Virginia federal court accusing it of unlawfully canceling billions of dollars in earned credit card rewards by unilaterally closing customers' accounts without cause.
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April 16, 2026
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday asked participants in Kellogg and FedEx pension plans to respond to the companies' bids for reconsideration of the court's decision to revive their lawsuits alleging benefits were miscalculated because the plans used outdated mortality data.
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April 16, 2026
A reasonable consumer would not expect a low-cost Brita filter to remove or reduce all common tap water contaminants to below lab detectable limits, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday, affirming the dismissal of a consumer's proposed false advertising class action against the manufacturer.
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April 16, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge denied a bid by a long-term care provider and a foreign nursing recruiter to dismiss a proposed class action brought by Filipino nurses who alleged they were forced to sign abusive contracts that amount to "indentured servitude."
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April 16, 2026
Vacuum company Bissell faces a proposed class action over the nearly 1.7 million steam cleaners it recalled this month due to complaints that components on the devices "unexpectedly detach," expelling hot water onto users, according to a complaint filed in Illinois federal court.
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April 16, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday sought Genworth Financial Inc.'s response to employee 401(k) participants who asked the court to rethink nixing class certification in their lawsuit alleging their retirement savings were bogged down by underperforming BlackRock Inc. target date funds.
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April 16, 2026
An Illinois federal judge declined to certify a class of Progressive Insurance customers who claimed the insurer underpaid on their total-loss vehicle claims by adding a downward pricing adjustment, ruling that the customers' experiences were too different to resolve in one case.
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April 16, 2026
A former Uber driver denied sexually assaulting a North Carolina woman in a video deposition taken from his hospital bed, telling jurors in a Charlotte courtroom on Thursday that he has no memory of the passenger who is suing the ride-share giant over the alleged incident.
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April 16, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday shut down proposed class claims alleging Southwest Airlines overcharged consumers for riskier flights on Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, saying the consumers' alleged economic injury theory was implausible and that they lacked standing to sue.