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October 23, 2026
The Ohio Supreme Court held Thursday that a trial court did not err by examining all seven requirements for class certification in a suit alleging water ratepayers were overcharged, even though the judge found two were not met but assumed for the sake of argument that the other requirements were satisfied.
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October 23, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked a federal judge to pare down the requirements outlined in an order regarding conditions at a New York facility, arguing the court's definition of a "hold room" is too broad.
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October 23, 2026
The sister of a woman who suffered a fatal overdose behind a smoke shop in Florida, caused by inhaling nitrous oxide "whippets," has agreed to end her claims against Galaxy Gas LLC after mediation.
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October 23, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Friday revived a group of Facebook users' proposed class action accusing Eyemart Express LLC of disclosing their HIPAA-protected information to Meta without their consent, saying in a published opinion that Eyemart and a district court had read the statutory definition of individually identifiable health information too narrowly.
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October 23, 2026
A Monolithic Power Systems Inc. shareholder's proposed class action accusing the semiconductor firm of lying to investors about product defects and its relationship with Nvidia Corp. will move forward following a Washington federal judge's denial of the company's bid for a favorable judgment in the case.
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October 23, 2026
A Washington federal judge granted final approval to a $4.2 million settlement to end class claims that Rapid Investments LLC and Axiom Bank NA charged former prisoners excessive and unfair fees on prepaid debit cards that held their personal cash that was returned to them upon release.
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October 23, 2026
Nvidia Corp. investors told a California federal judge that they've struck a deal with the chipmaker in a shareholder case that briefly went before the U.S. Supreme Court and that claims the company failed to inform investors about its reliance on the volatile crypto market.
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October 23, 2026
Microsoft Corp.'s $250 million settlement of stockholder claims stemming from its $75.4 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. won Delaware Chancery Court approval Friday, as the chancellor rejected an investment fund's attempt to preserve a separate federal securities suit and awarded $60 million in attorney fees.
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October 23, 2026
New York City has been hit with a proposed class action in federal court, alleging that the New York Police Department regularly unconstitutionally seizes property, which can only be recovered in a "Kafkaesque Odyssey" and by navigating a "bureaucratic scavenger hunt, riddled with contradictory instructions, arbitrary requirements and dead ends."
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October 23, 2026
A group of Baxter International shareholders should not be allowed to pursue securities fraud claims over a new fluid pump product later deemed defective simply because the product and its revenues performed worse than publicly expected, the company and its executives have told an Illinois federal judge.
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October 23, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Friday to extend a pause on the generic-drug price-fixing multidistrict litigation, eyeing setting a new trial date for the first bellwether case initially paused by a conflict with a special master that the drugmakers say now covers "the entire MDL."
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October 23, 2026
Two former Walmart employees claim the company routinely requires its hourly workers to perform off-the-clock duties and to be "on call" during their breaks, and failed to pay overtime wages, according to a new lawsuit filed in Colorado federal court.
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October 23, 2026
A California federal judge has tossed proposed class claims alleging Google violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act by training its artificial intelligence tools through the customer service software it provided to Home Depot, and the judge required pursuing arbitration for plaintiffs who called customer service for Verizon, Uber and Discover.
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October 23, 2026
The First Circuit found that investment management firm MW Gestion was a few months too late to sue an investor and his firm on a claim they hid their growing stake in China-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech Ltd., upholding a lower court's ruling that ended MW Gestion's proposed class action on behalf of Sinovac shareholders.
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October 23, 2026
PepsiCo Inc. and its Siete Family Foods brand were hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court Thursday alleging that their tortilla and potato chips are falsely marketed as made with avocado oil exclusively despite containing cheaper, undisclosed seed oils.
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October 23, 2026
News organizations locked in a sweeping fight with OpenAI and Microsoft over whether artificial intelligence developers should be able to legally use news content to train AI asked a New York federal judge Friday not to rule that doing so is fair use, arguing the tech companies see a world where they can freely copy entire articles.
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October 23, 2026
Parking technology company Metropolis has sued 14 California parking lot customers in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing their law firm, Keller Postman LLC, of orchestrating more than 1,900 arbitrations over license plate data to pressure the business into a settlement.
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October 23, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge said a bid for preliminary approval of an $80 million settlement between data breach victims and Conduent Business Services LLC lacks the case-specific materials needed to evaluate the deal's fairness.
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October 23, 2026
An Ohio federal judge rejected Goodyear's bid for a redo on its motion to dismiss a suit from workers who challenged a nicotine fee in their employee health plan, holding Friday that a judge's decision in another dispute against grocery chain Meijer didn't change his analysis.
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October 23, 2026
A former employee of a Boston oyster bar says he was fired in retaliation for questioning how the restaurant was using a 5% "administrative fee" that customers were told went to nontipped employees like himself.
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October 23, 2026
An ADT employee claimed the home security company violated federal benefits law by failing to properly reimburse employees who were charged a $100 monthly fee through their health plan if they used tobacco, according to a suit filed in Florida federal court.
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October 22, 2026
Starbucks has called on a Washington federal judge to throw out a proposed class action accusing the java giant of relying on Brazilian coffee farms that forced workers to endure inhumane conditions, arguing Wednesday that the plaintiffs haven't shown the plantations that employed them supplied its beans.
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October 22, 2026
A Michigan federal judge Thursday refused to throw out a proposed securities class action against Domino's Pizza Inc., finding that the investor plaintiff has adequately alleged that the pizza chain knew a major franchisee would underperform when the company made positive, forward-looking statements to shareholders.
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October 22, 2026
Nestle was hit with a proposed false advertising class action Wednesday in New Jersey federal court alleging its Solgar VM-75 supplements contain dangerous levels of vitamin B6, which can heighten the risk of developing peripheral neuropathy or worsen the condition.
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October 22, 2026
A divided Ninth Circuit panel gave an Aeropostale customer another chance to lay out her claim that the clothing brand's allegedly false discount scheme violated Washington state law, ruling in an unpublished opinion Wednesday that the customer can amend her complaint that she paid too much for a pair of leggings.