Class Action

  • July 17, 2025

    Class Claims Target Anthem's 'Ghost' Provider Networks

    Anthem Health Plans Inc. and its parent Elevance Health Inc. should be held liable for maintaining inaccurate directories of mental health providers that send patients on a "wild-goose chase" to find care, according to a putative class action in Connecticut state court that targets "ghost" networks.

  • July 17, 2025

    Problematic Fund Harmed Health Tech Co. 401(k), Court Told

    Health technology company Philips North America cost workers millions by retaining a stable value investment fund in its $5 billion retirement plan that produced dismal returns for workers and by mismanaging forfeited funds, three workers told a Massachusetts federal court.

  • July 17, 2025

    Mortgage Cos.' Wage Deal OK'd Without Waiver Language

    A settlement resolving an overtime suit by former mortgage company workers will move forward, but without language saying the company's owners and its successor waived certain defenses against a former co-owner in his separate New Jersey state court case, a federal judge ruled.

  • July 17, 2025

    Fla. Judge Rejects US Service Members' Timeshare Claims

    A Florida federal judge sided with Holiday Inn Club Vacations Inc. and its timeshare financier on Thursday in a putative class action by two U.S. Air Force members alleging that their timeshare loan contracts violated the Military Lending Act.

  • July 17, 2025

    Authors Win Cert. In Copyright Suit Against Anthropic

    A California federal judge on Thursday certified a class of copyright owners of books in the online pirate libraries Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror that were downloaded by artificial intelligence firm Anthropic for training its Claude generative text model.

  • July 17, 2025

    Atty Access At 'Alligator Alcatraz' Being Barred, Suit Says

    Attorneys are being barred from consulting clients being detained at the new detention facility in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," while detainees are being prevented from contesting their detention, a new federal lawsuit alleges.

  • July 17, 2025

    Robotics Co. Investors Settle De-SPAC Suit For $7.5M In Del.

    Investors in a special purpose acquisition company that took artificial intelligence company Berkshire Grey Inc. public for $2.25 billion in mid-2021 have reported a $7.5 million proposed settlement intended to end a breach of fiduciary duty suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery.

  • July 17, 2025

    DMC Global Brass Sued Over Arcadia Acquisition

    Executives and directors of industrial company DMC Global Inc. have been hit with a shareholder derivative suit in Colorado federal court accusing them of allowing the company to exaggerate the prospects and financial health of a manufacturing segment it acquired in 2021.

  • July 17, 2025

    J&J Loses Bid To DQ Beasley Allen From Talc MDL Committee

    A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday denied Johnson & Johnson's bid to remove the Beasley Allen Law Firm from the plaintiffs steering committee in the multidistrict talc litigation but said that changes would be made to the committee's structure.

  • July 17, 2025

    Healthcare Co.'s Revised $120K Wage Deal Gets Green Light

    A Connecticut-based healthcare company and its workers can move forward with their second attempt at a wage and hour settlement agreement, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, finding that the new terms fix concerns he raised over the release of claims when rejecting the initial deal.

  • July 17, 2025

    Mortgage Co. Says Military Service Rule Bars Interest Lawsuit

    A mortgage loan servicer accused of charging military members interest rates that exceeded a federal statutory cap says the leader of a proposed class action didn't perform qualifying service under the statute he invoked and his Connecticut federal case should probably be dismissed.

  • July 17, 2025

    Fla. Law Firm Zumpano Patricios Hit With Data Breach Suit

    Miami-headquartered national law firm Zumpano Patricios is facing a proposed class action in Florida federal court accusing the firm of failing to protect sensitive information, including dates of birth and healthcare payments, that was compromised in a May data breach.

  • July 17, 2025

    Firm Named Lead Counsel For REIT Securities Fraud Class

    The Rosen Law Firm PA will serve as lead counsel for a proposed class of Sun Communities investors who claim the real estate investment trust failed to disclose that its CEO received a loan from a board member's relatives.

  • July 17, 2025

    Equinix OKs $41.5M Settlement Of Capital Spending Claims

    Data center developer Equinix has agreed to pay $41.5 million to settle class claims from a pension fund saying the company mislabeled spending on maintenance expenses over a five-year period to earn executives bonuses of $150 million.

  • July 17, 2025

    Meta, Stockholders Settle $8B Privacy Breach Suit

    Attorneys for Meta stockholders reported a midtrial agreement Thursday to settle an $8 billion-plus Delaware Court of Chancery suit accusing the company's directors and officers of breaching privacy regulations and corporate fiduciary duties tied to allegations dating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal more than a decade ago.

  • July 16, 2025

    CME Trading Center Access Didn't Need Approval, Jury Hears

    A data center that CME Group Inc. built to accommodate electronic trading is not a trading floor, and the exchange didn't ask permission to let both members and nonmembers do their work there because it didn't need to, an Illinois jury heard Wednesday in the traders' class action.

  • July 16, 2025

    Wells Fargo Sued Over 'Flippant' Mortgage Fee Refunds

    A Wells Fargo mortgage borrower has filed a proposed class action against the bank, alleging the bank made an "inadequate" effort to resolve purported mortgage origination fee errors it has vaguely alerted certain borrowers to.

  • July 16, 2025

    Immigrants Slam 'Unlawful' Immigration Courthouse Arrests

    A group of immigrants and advocacy groups on Wednesday filed a proposed class action over the Trump administration's recent practice of arresting and fast-tracking the deportation of people attending hearings at immigration courts, calling the arrests "unprecedented" and "unlawful."

  • July 16, 2025

    OpenAI, Microsoft Challenge Authors' Proposed Class Action

    OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft each have lodged challenges in New York federal court to a consolidated proposed class action from a group of best-selling authors who claim their works were used to train ChatGPT, saying the consolidated litigation went beyond the court's permissible scope.

  • July 16, 2025

    8th Circ. Sends Part Of OptumRx Pricing Fight To Arbitration

    The Eighth Circuit partially reversed a ruling Wednesday that denied pharmacy benefits manager OptumRx's bid to send a drugstore's proposed class action over generics prescription reimbursements to arbitration, finding that OptumRx waived arbitration as to three claims, but an arbitrator must decide the fate of two recently pleaded claims.

  • July 16, 2025

    Meta Wanted To Shield Zuckerberg From FTC Suit, Chancery Told

    A former Facebook director testified Wednesday that company directors resisted federal efforts to include CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in a privacy breach suit that settled for $5 billion in 2019, starting a Delaware trial on a derivative stockholder suit to recover the payout.

  • July 16, 2025

    Amazon Beats Class Suit Over Prime Video Ads For Good

    A Washington federal judge has permanently ended a proposed class action against Amazon.com Inc. over the introduction of commercials on the company's Prime Video streaming service, reiterating on Wednesday her prior ruling that the company's subscriber terms permitted the change.

  • July 16, 2025

    Bojangles Managers Ask To Redo Cert. After 4th Circ. Setback

    Managers at the fast-food chain Bojangles asked a North Carolina federal judge Wednesday to certify more than a dozen subclasses in their wage and hour case, arguing that there's still a path forward after the Fourth Circuit sent them back to the drawing board on certification.

  • July 16, 2025

    Chinese Investors' EB-5 Fraud Claims Dismissed

    A Delaware federal judge has tossed a proposed class action lodged by Chinese investors claiming they were defrauded in a failed EB-5 hotel investment tied to a San Francisco property, finding that the investors' claims are time-barred and that the court lacks jurisdiction.

  • July 16, 2025

    Hims & Hers Brass Face Suit Over 'Knockoff' Wegovy Sales

    Executives and directors of telehealth company Hims & Hers Health Inc. have been hit with a shareholder derivative suit in California federal court accusing them of allowing the company to exploit its now-terminated partnership with Novo Nordisk to sell "knockoff" versions of Novo's weight loss drug Wegovy,.

Expert Analysis

  • Navigating Court Concerns About QR Codes In FLSA Notices

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    As plaintiffs attorneys increasingly seek to include QR codes as a method of notice in Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions, counsel should be prepared to address judicial concerns about their use, including their potential to be duplicative and circumvent court-approved language, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.

  • Examining TCPA Jurisprudence A Year After Loper Bright

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    One year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, lower court decisions demonstrate that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act will continue to evolve as long-standing interpretations of the act are analyzed with a fresh lens, says Aaron Gallardo at Kilpatrick.

  • Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures

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    With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • Series

    Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.

  • State, Fed Junk Fee Enforcement Shows No Signs Of Slowing

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    The Federal Trade Commission’s potent new rule targeting drip pricing, in addition to the growing patchwork of state consumer protection laws, suggest that enforcement and litigation targeting junk fees will likely continue to expand, says Etia Rottman Frand at Darrow AI.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care

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    Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard​​​​​​​ at MG+M.

  • Birthright Opinions Reveal Views On Rule 23(b)(2) Relief

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    The justices' multiple opinions in the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 27 decision in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. CASA, shed light on whether Rule 23(b)(2) could fill the void created by the court's decision to restrict nationwide injunctions, says Benjamin Johns at Shub Johns.

  • ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'

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    The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Latest Influencer Marketing Class Actions Pinpoint 5 Themes

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    Several recent deceptive marketing class actions against both brands and influencers attempt to transform arguably routine business practices into a new focus area for consumer complaints, suggesting a coordinated approach to test what could become an increasingly popular area of litigation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Canadian Suit Offers Disclosure Lesson For US Cannabis Cos.

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    A Canadian class action asserting that Aurora Cannabis failed to warn consumers about the risk of developing cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome may spawn copycat filings in the U.S., and is a cautionary tale for cannabis and hemp industries to prioritize risk disclosure, says Ian Stewart at Wilson Elser.

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    My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.

  • 4 Consumer Class Action Trends To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025

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    The first half of 2025 has seen a surge of consumer class action trends related to online tools, websites and marketing messages, creating a new legal risk landscape for companies of all sizes, says Scott Shaffer at Olshan Frome.

  • High Court ACA Ruling May Harm Preventative Care

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood last week, ruling that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary has authority over an Affordable Care Act preventive care task force, risks harming the credibility of the task force and could open the door to politicians dictating clinical recommendations, says Michael Kolber at Manatt.

  • 8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

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    Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients

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    Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.

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