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June 01, 2026
A copyright fight over the future of AI‑powered legal research heads to the Third Circuit, where a legal publisher will argue this month that a legal technology company's use of its headnotes does not constitute fair use of copyrighted material. The court will also take up a challenge to New Jersey's firearm nuisance law in a case that asks when a trade group can bring a federal suit over a state statute.
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June 01, 2026
Microsoft has been hit with a proposed class action in Washington federal court by two gamers who claim the tech giant broke federal antitrust law by striking a price-matching deal with video game developer Valve Corp. for PC games sold in their respective digital storefronts.
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June 01, 2026
Cornell University and several other elite schools are now facing a certified class action accusing them of conspiring to fix the amount of financial aid they gave out after the Illinois federal judge overseeing the case certified a 74,000-strong class Monday.
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June 01, 2026
A University of California San Diego gynecologic oncologist told a California jury Monday in a bellwether trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused three women's deadly ovarian cancer that women and girls "wouldn't be alive" if talc could easily migrate to the ovaries because they'd be dying from sepsis.
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June 01, 2026
A data breach victim hit 7-Eleven Inc. with a putative class action on Monday, following a cyberattack by the notorious hacking group known as ShinyHunters, saying 7-Eleven's negligence led to the leak of personal data.
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June 01, 2026
A special master recommended Monday that a New Jersey federal judge certify a class of Valeant Pharmaceuticals stockholders looking to hold PwC liable for missing "red flags" that could have caught what they called market manipulation by the pharmaceutical company, rejecting the professional services giant's argument that the lead plaintiff's claims are atypical and "lawyer-driven."
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June 01, 2026
Garmin has been hit with proposed class consumer fraud claims by an Illinois customer who says the company illegally misrepresents that its Index smart scale can accurately measure someone's body composition.
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June 01, 2026
A Detroit property owner can't seek Sixth Circuit review of the Michigan attorney general's intervention in the property owner's constitutional challenge to the state's Fire Insurance Withholding Program, as a federal judge said Monday the intervention won't "materially alter" the suit.
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June 01, 2026
Emory University said its insurer must cover $1.2 million in defense costs and costs incurred to settle a proposed class action over the school's switch to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling a Georgia state court the insurer improperly denied coverage based on a False Claims Act exclusion.
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June 01, 2026
Health-forward baked goods company Royo Bread has been hit with a proposed false advertising class action in New York federal court, accusing it of "health-washing" its line of keto-friendly, low-calorie bread, rolls and bagel products by claiming they contain fewer calories than they actually do.
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June 01, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge questioned why a proposed $2 million settlement agreement between the NCAA and a class of tennis athletes challenging the organization's prize-money rules did not provide relief for enrolled students playing the sport for their schools.
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June 01, 2026
Charter Communications, which provides telecommunications services in 41 states, has been hit with five Connecticut federal court lawsuits alleging that hackers stole more than 40 million private records through a cyberattack that infiltrated an employee's computer access account.
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June 01, 2026
A Georgia federal court on Monday awarded $3.45 million in attorney fees and costs to lawyers for workers who reached an $11.5 million settlement over claims that a Hyundai supplier, a Kia plant and staffing agencies recruited skilled Mexican engineers for production work and underpaid them.
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June 01, 2026
A Disney+ user must arbitrate his claim that ESPN Inc. gave his viewing data to Facebook's parent company Meta without his permission, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled, saying federal arbitration law preempts a Pennsylvania Superior Court decision that applied higher standards to private dispute resolution contracts.
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June 01, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has cleared the way for servers and bussers at a craft brewing company to pursue their wage claims as a group, finding that tipped workers across the company's taprooms shared a common grievance over how they were paid.
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June 01, 2026
A proposed class of consumers who bought what are known as ionization-only smoke detectors made by Kidde filed suit in Florida state court Monday, claiming the smoke alarms are defective because they are incapable of detecting the most common type of residential fire.
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June 01, 2026
Data protection company Commvault was hit with a stockholder suit Friday in New Jersey federal court alleging that the company violated federal securities law with misleading statements about its projected annually recurring revenue growth for the 2026 fiscal year.
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June 01, 2026
Zillow has pulled into D.C. federal court a proposed class action accusing the real estate tech company's rental manager service of the "relentless imposition of add-on fees" when people are trying to pay their rent.
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June 01, 2026
The NFL's disability and retirement plans have agreed to reassess former players' cognitive health to settle a sweeping class action accusing the plans of muting the results based on race.
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June 01, 2026
A real estate brokerage asked a Virginia federal court to allow proceedings to continue in its antitrust case against CoStar, noting that, although the parties agree that similar cases should be consolidated with the Virginia case, the suit need not be frozen in the meantime.
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June 01, 2026
Investors in temperature-controlled warehouse giant Lineage Inc. can't show they were misled about the company's prospects ahead of its $4.4 billion initial public offering in 2024, the company has argued in Michigan federal court, arguing it plainly disclosed at the time that it was debuting amid a "soft" market for cold storage.
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June 01, 2026
A warehouse and freight unloading company was hit with a proposed collective action in Georgia federal court by two former forklift operators who alleged they worked as many as 80 hours per week without proper overtime pay and were retaliated against for complaining.
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June 01, 2026
The maker of Instinct Pet Foods is urging a California federal court to throw out a false advertising suit over alleged artificial preservatives in its products, saying the "serial lawsuit filer" behind the suit failed to properly allege standing or any falsity with "copy-and-paste" claims.
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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to weigh in on a dispute between trading app operator Robinhood and investors who sued over the company's $2.1 billion initial public offering, as the high court considers whether to hear the case.
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June 01, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday allowed brokerage Hanna Holdings to ask the Third Circuit to review a March decision largely rejecting its attempt to escape claims from homebuyers that its allegiance to National Association of Realtor rules drove up the cost of purchases.