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April 22, 2026
Insurers Humana Inc. and Molina Healthcare Inc. urged a federal judge to turn down a group of generic-drug makers' request for an immediate trip to the Third Circuit, arguing the drugmakers' bid for a second chance to disqualify Connecticut's former assistant attorney general from an antitrust case was not qualified for an interlocutory appeal.
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April 22, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Philip Morris USA Inc. to impose rules aimed at curbing big-dollar punitive damages awards, declining to wipe out or further reduce a verdict against the tobacco company that was already slashed from $1 billion to $56 million.
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April 22, 2026
Legal tech company LinkSquares Inc. and inside sales representatives who claimed they were misclassified as overtime-exempt reached a settlement to avoid a jury trial that was set to begin in Boston federal court Tuesday.
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April 22, 2026
Yelp failed to pay hourly workers for the minutes they spent waiting for their work computers to boot up before they could clock in for each shift, a former worker alleged in a proposed class action in California state court.
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April 21, 2026
Counsel for Capital One customers urged a California federal judge Tuesday to certify a class over claims their personal financial information was illegally disclosed to Meta Platforms Inc., Google LLC and others, saying the customers' claims share a common question — whether the financial giant obtained consent based on its privacy disclosures.
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April 21, 2026
Armistice Capital's founder defended his hedge fund Tuesday from claims it pump-and-dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling a California federal jury that he and his fund got "lucky" and that the stock's rapid surge was "fun."
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April 21, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has refused to cut wiretap and negligence claims from a proposed class action accusing telehealth provider Nourish Inc. of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted website visitors' sensitive health information to Google, while tossing several privacy and contract allegations and rebuking the plaintiffs for filing a "press release complaint."
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April 21, 2026
Online directories Whitepages and RocketReach lost their efforts to strike class allegations from parallel lawsuits claiming they violated Colorado's Prevention of Telemarketing Fraud Act, with a Seattle federal judge ruling Tuesday that the pleadings so far don't rule out proceeding on a classwide basis.
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April 21, 2026
A man who sued a cannabis retailer on allegations he received unsolicited text messages has voluntarily dismissed his Florida federal lawsuit just a month after the company argued the Telephone Consumer Protection Act only covers calls, not texts.
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April 21, 2026
Social media companies urged a California federal judge at a hearing Tuesday to toss a bellwether case in sprawling litigation accusing the companies of harming children's mental health, arguing that the plaintiff admitted during his deposition that he was not harmed by the platform's features, sinking his claims.
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April 21, 2026
Audible Inc. customers accusing the company of illegally putting expiration dates on audiobook vouchers asked a Seattle federal judge to certify a nationwide class of consumers, arguing that it "makes no sense" for the potential class members to litigate claims individually.
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April 21, 2026
Attorneys for a biopharmaceutical and technology company stockholder and a group of venture investors sharply disagreed Tuesday over whether a financing deal was a lifeline for a struggling company or a self-serving maneuver that enriched insiders, as they argued a motion to dismiss the derivative suit in the Delaware Chancery Court.
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April 21, 2026
Financial services company Ameriprise was hit with a proposed class action in Minnesota federal court accusing it of failing to safeguard customers' data from cybercriminals, resulting in a breach of its records in March.
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April 21, 2026
A former Amgen Inc. employee filed a proposed class action in California federal court Tuesday alleging the biotech company discriminatorily imposes an "egregiously high" $150-a-month surcharge on employees who use tobacco products, while failing to adequately notify them of reasonable pathways to avoid the fees, in violation of federal benefits law.
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April 21, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. had no knowledge of alleged pump-and-dump scam advertisements on its social media platforms, it has said, urging a California federal judge to dismiss a suit seeking to hold the tech company responsible for losses from the scams.
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April 21, 2026
A Delaware federal judge has trimmed a shareholder suit against hydrogen fuel cell company Plug Power Inc., finding that statements about the company's revenue projections and one of its production facilities are inactionable.
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April 21, 2026
Immigration officials said a California federal court should toss a proposed class action from inmates alleging intolerable living conditions in a Mojave Desert processing center because the plaintiffs have sued the wrong defendants.
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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.