Class Action

  • August 04, 2025

    Fiat Chrysler, Drivers Seek OK Of Truck Defect Settlement

    A group of Dodge Ram drivers has asked a federal judge to preliminarily approve a class settlement resolving claims that Fiat Chrysler sold trucks with a defect that causes vehicle fires.

  • August 04, 2025

    DC Circ. Lets Trump Border Asylum Ban Continue, With Limits

    The D.C. Circuit has allowed the Trump administration to continue enforcing a policy that largely bars asylum at the southern border for now, but said it can't deport noncitizens without honoring legal protections for those who fear torture or persecution.

  • August 04, 2025

    9th Circ. Rejects Most Of Sodexo's ERISA Arbitration Push

    The Ninth Circuit said Monday that employers can't unilaterally change Employee Retirement Income Security Act-governed plans to require arbitration, backing the bulk of a trial court ruling that refused to throw out of court a nicotine fee lawsuit against food service company Sodexo.

  • August 04, 2025

    Imperial Tobacco Seeks US Approval Of CA$32B Restructuring

    Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. asked a New York bankruptcy judge to recognize and enforce the company's Canadian restructuring plan that implements its role in a CA$32.5 billion ($23.59 billion) settlement of tobacco liability suits north of the border.

  • August 04, 2025

    Hair Care Brand Olaplex Settles IPO Investors' Suit For $47.5M

    Olaplex Holdings Inc. has reached a $47.5 million settlement with investors to resolve a proposed class action alleging that the hair care brand's initial public offering documents did not disclose that the European Union had banned a controversial ingredient called lilial, which would affect Olaplex's main product offering.

  • August 04, 2025

    PR Giants Look To End World Cup Labor Abuse Coverup Suit

    Powerful public relations agencies are taking aim at a lawsuit accusing them of whitewashing the Qatari government's alleged human rights abuses ahead of the 2022 men's World Cup, telling a New York federal court that they are not liable under global human trafficking laws.

  • August 04, 2025

    Logan Paul Energy Drink Co.'s False Ad Suit Tossed For Good

    A New York federal judge has thrown out a consolidated suit alleging Logan Paul's Prime Hydration LLC misleads consumers by selling energy drinks with more caffeine than advertised, saying a "smidgen" more caffeine is not material to the kind of buyer who is already buying a drink with twice the caffeine of its competitors.

  • August 04, 2025

    Investors Say Novo Nordisk Misled Them Over Drug Demand

    Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed securities class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the company misled investors over its revenue outlook for 2025 by allegedly overstating the likelihood patients would switch to its branded diabetes and weight loss drugs.

  • August 04, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sought injunctive relief in a new suit accusing U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. of a poaching scheme that involved over 100 M&M employees resigning on July 21. 

  • August 04, 2025

    Bitcoin Depot Hit With Data Breach Class Action In Ga.

    Bitcoin Depot Inc. was hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court Friday over allegations that it failed to properly safeguard the personally identifiable information of more than 26,000 U.S. residents in a July 2024 data breach.

  • August 04, 2025

    Anthropic Asks 9th Circ. To Review Authors' Class Cert.

    Anthropic PBC has asked the Ninth Circuit to review a California federal judge's class certification of a group of authors suing over use of their books to train artificial intelligence, saying the judge had rushed to approve a class of nearly seven million potential claimants.

  • August 04, 2025

    Home Depot's Self-Checkout Kiosks Violate BIPA, Suit Says

    Home Depot was hit with proposed class biometric privacy claims Monday by a customer who says the facial recognition technology the retailer deploys at its self-checkout kiosks illegally scans, collects and uses consumers' geometric facial data without informed consent.

  • August 04, 2025

    4th Circ. Says Lead Paint Suit Rightly Returned To State Court

    The Fourth Circuit has affirmed the remand of a proposed class action alleging a television tower owner and a painting company blasted lead-based paint off the tower and into surrounding neighborhoods, finding the case fits within the "local controversy" exception in the Class Action Fairness Act.

  • August 02, 2025

    9th Circ. Backs Limits On ICE Immigration Sweeps In LA

    The Ninth Circuit preserved most of a district court's temporary block on the Trump administration making immigration arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause, rejecting the government's request for a stay during its appeal.

  • August 01, 2025

    Meta Illegally Recorded Flo Users' Data, Calif. Jury Finds

    A California federal jury Friday found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for violating the state's wiretap law by using a data analytics tool to retrieve sensitive health data from users of the popular menstrual tracking app Flo, in what plaintiffs' counsel called "one of the first times" a major tech company has been held accountable for such practices. 

  • August 01, 2025

    Wheeling & Appealing: Midyear Highlights For Every Circuit

    In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line.

  • August 01, 2025

    Manufacturer Seeks To Toss Marijuana Vape Antitrust Suit

    The Chinese companies behind cannabis vape brand CCell have urged a California federal court to dismiss a consolidated consumer class action accusing it of orchestrating a price-fixing scheme, accusing the buyers of "padding" their amended complaint with "copy-pasted" passages from other, unrelated lawsuits.

  • August 01, 2025

    3rd Circ. Asked To Revive Amazon Biometric Data Suit

    A federal judge erred in tossing class claims accusing Amazon of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, including by finding that a third-party software company was a "financial institution," the named plaintiffs told the Third Circuit

  • August 01, 2025

    Tesla Sends Website Users' Data To Google For Ads, Suit Says

    Tesla was slapped with a proposed class action in California federal court Thursday alleging it illegally shares its website visitors' information with third parties like Google through the deployment of tracking pixels for data monetization and advertising purposes, without their knowledge or consent. 

  • August 01, 2025

    Malibu Boats Inks $7.8M Investor Settlement Over Sales Woes

    Powerboat maker Malibu Boats Inc. has agreed to pay $7.8 million as part of a deal to end a proposed investor class action alleging the company pushed one of its key dealers to the brink of bankruptcy by "pump[ing] the dealer full of boats" amid a post-COVID-19 boat business bust.

  • August 01, 2025

    Azure Power Seeks Final OK Of $23M Investor Deal

    Investors of an India-based solar energy company asked a New York federal judge on Friday to grant final approval to a $23 million settlement they reached with the company and its top brass, alleging they misrepresented the company's compliance with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws, and the methods through which the company won bids for projects.

  • August 01, 2025

    Nestle Fights Class Cert. In 'Trillion'-Dollar Poland Spring Suit

    Nestle Waters North America Inc. has asked a Connecticut federal judge to deny a class certification bid in a lawsuit challenging whether Poland Spring bottled water is real spring water, saying "gerrymandered classes and subclasses" cannot be used to leverage billions or even trillions of dollars in alleged damages.

  • August 01, 2025

    2nd Circ. Affirms Class Cert. In VRDO Suit Against Banks

    The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court order granting class certification to a group of American cities and others that are accusing eight large banks of inflating interest rates on debt securities known as variable rate demand obligations, saying the district court applied the correct legal standard in granting certification.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rite Aid's $6.8M Data Breach Settlement Gets Final OK

    A Pennsylvania federal court has given its final approval to a $6.8 million settlement of data breach claims against now-bankrupt Rite Aid Corp., including $2.4 million in fees for attorneys from Ahdoot & Wolfson PC, Shub Johns & Holbrook LLP, Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP, Laukaitis Law LLC and Hausfeld LLP.

  • August 01, 2025

    11th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Luli Fama Swimwear Ad Suit

    The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action against Luli Fama and various social media influencers for failing to disclose the influencers' endorsements of the brand's swimwear products were paid, saying the lower court rightly found the plaintiff failed to allege fraud with the necessary particularity.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • One Year On, Davidson Holds Lessons On 'Health Halo' Claims

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    A year after the Ninth Circuit's Davidson v. Sprout Foods decision — which raised the bar for so-called health halo claims — food and beverage companies can draw insights from its finding, subsequently expanded on by other courts, that plaintiffs must be specific when alleging fraud in healthfulness marketing, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Rocket Mortgage Appeal May Push Justices To Curb Classes

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    Should the U.S. Supreme Court agree to hear Alig v. Rocket Mortgage, the resulting decision could limit class sizes based on commonality under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Evidence as opposed to standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, say attorneys at Carr Maloney.

  • What Businesses Need To Know To Avoid VPPA Class Actions

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    Divergent rulings by the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circuits about the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act have highlighted the difficulty of applying a statute conceived to regulate the now-obsolete brick-and-mortar video store sector in today's internet economy, say attorneys at DTO Law.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

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    My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

  • A Pattern Emerges In Justices' Evaluation Of Veteran Statute

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    The recent Soto v. U.S. decision that the statute of limitations for certain military-related claims does not apply to combat-related special compensation exemplifies the U.S. Supreme Court's view, emerging in two other recent opinions, that it is a reviewing court's obligation to determine the best interpretation of the language used by Congress, says attorney Kenneth Carpenter.

  • Opinion

    Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System

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    The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.

  • Series

    Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.

  • Focusing On Fluoride: From FDA To Class Action

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    A class action filed two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to remove ingestible fluoride prescription drug products for children from the market may be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the connection between government pronouncements on safety and their immediate use as evidence in lawsuits, says Rachel Turow at Skadden.

  • How Dfinity Timeliness Ruling Can Aid Crypto Issuers

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    A California federal court's recent dismissal of a class action against Dfinity, holding that the claims were time-barred by the Securities Act's three-year statute of repose, provides a useful defense for cryptocurrency issuers, which often solicit investments years before minting and distributing the associated tokens, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Rejecting Biz Dev Myths

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    Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.

  • Move Beyond Surface-Level Edits To Master Legal Writing

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    Recent instances in which attorneys filed briefs containing artificial intelligence hallucinations offer a stark reminder that effective revision isn’t just about superficial details like grammar — it requires attorneys to critically engage with their writing and analyze their rhetorical choices, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

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