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April 02, 2026
Amazon consumers lodged a proposed class action in California state court Wednesday, accusing the retail giant of employing a deceptive advertising scheme by touting earlier versions of its Fire TV Sticks as having instant streaming benefits, only later to discontinue critical software functionality and rendering them obsolete.
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April 02, 2026
A group of investors were told by a Tennessee federal judge that they cannot claim that a property holding company is liable for debts to investors under state statute in a suit accusing a purported green energy outfit and its executives of using promises of extravagant returns to induce investments.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. government's tariffs imposed last year likely raised consumer prices by 0.5% to 1%, the Yale Budget Lab said Thursday in a report that revised down its initial estimates.
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April 02, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge Thursday granted initial approval to a $35 million deal that Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay to resolve claims from a coalition of union healthcare funds that say the company schemed to delay generic competition for its QVAR asthma inhalers.
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April 02, 2026
Clifford Chance LLP has hired a former White & Case LLP attorney as a partner in its tax, pensions and employment group in New York.
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April 02, 2026
Baker McKenzie has hired a former deputy assistant in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, who worked with the agency for a decade and most recently as the top attorney on U.S. trade actions, tariffs and other policy.
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April 02, 2026
Amazon is considering an acquisition of satellite company Globalstar in a $9 billion deal, cosmetics giant Estee Lauder is in talks to merge with Spanish beauty firm Puig in a deal that would create a $40 billion beauty giant, and private equity behemoth Apollo is in discussions to acquire Atlantic Aviation from KKR in a $10 billion deal.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is moving forward with a case accusing Elon Musk of failing to timely disclose his ownership stake in Twitter, with Musk telling a Washington, D.C., federal judge that the case may head to trial, just weeks after the parties told the judge they were negotiating a possible deal to end the case.
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April 02, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal court has once again trimmed claims against Wyndham Hotels & Resorts from a lawsuit alleging that three employees were "trafficked" at hotels in Pennsylvania and West Virginia by being forced to work solely in exchange for lodging.
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April 02, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge gave preliminary approval Thursday to a settlement in which Bank of America will pay $72.5 million to as many as 75 women to settle allegations that it facilitated what the court called Jeffrey Epstein's "monstrous" sex trafficking and abuse.
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April 02, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday allowed stockholders suing The Kraft Heinz Co. to amend part of their complaint over a $1.2 billion stock sale, but sharply limited the case to newly uncovered evidence about a single director's consulting relationship.
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April 02, 2026
X Corp. and Elon Musk have agreed to settle claims by a group of six former Twitter employees that they were falsely promised severance benefits in connection with Musk's acquisition of the social media company.
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April 01, 2026
A Washington federal judge significantly narrowed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of surreptitiously recording Alexa device users' personal conversations, finding that the company had clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental device activations and that only some unregistered users had adequately asserted individual wiretap claims.
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April 01, 2026
A California federal judge has refused to certify proposed classes of consumers accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally collecting sensitive financial data from tax preparation websites, finding that the currently proposed classes are "significantly" broad and would likely invite statute-of-limitations defenses that would require "extensive individual inquiries" into each class member.
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April 01, 2026
The Seventh Circuit held Wednesday that a liability-limiting amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law applies to every lawsuit pending at the time the amendment took effect, ruling that the amendment is only a procedural change to the law and, therefore, must be applied retroactively.
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April 01, 2026
A Nestle consumer cannot pursue false labeling accusations over the "100% real chocolate" claim on the company's chocolate chip bags because her complaint is "half-baked" and contradicts the widespread understanding that chocolate is made from more than cacao bean-based ingredients, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.
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April 01, 2026
The founder of crypto payments firm Evita on Wednesday admitted to what prosecutors say was a scheme to launder over half a billion dollars in cross-border transactions through the U.S. financial system, including funds held by sanctioned Russian banks.
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April 01, 2026
A Florida state appellate panel on Wednesday revived a condominium association's suit challenging an insurer's coverage denial for Hurricane Irma damage, finding that the trial court wrongly disregarded allegations that the insurer intentionally delayed its coverage determination to skirt the statute of limitations.
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April 01, 2026
U.S. Bancorp escaped a suit calling its use of Meta's Pixel a "highly offensive" intrusion that shares bank website user information with Meta without users' consent, with a Minnesota federal judge ruling the plaintiff does not specify what information he shared with the bank or how it was used.
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April 01, 2026
Global cheese producer Leprino Foods Co. and its majority shareholders, officers and directors engaged in "shareholder oppression" by systematically freezing out minority shareholders, a part owner and granddaughter of the company's founder claimed in Colorado state court.
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April 01, 2026
Counsel for Google users who won a $425 million class action trial over claims the company unlawfully collected their information have urged a California federal judge to give them nearly $147 million in legal fees, even as both sides filed motions seeking to unwind aspects of the verdict.
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April 01, 2026
Investors in X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, have been granted class certification in litigation alleging tech billionaire Elon Musk secretly amassed a significant stake in the company while its stock traded at artificially depressed prices.
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April 01, 2026
Oil and gas equipment manufacturer HMH Holding hit the public markets Wednesday after raising $210 million in an initial public offering that priced within its expected range.
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April 01, 2026
A New York federal court has refused to toss a defunct photo-sharing app's antitrust case accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of using its monopoly in personal social networking to drive the app out of business, after the Second Circuit revived the case.
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April 01, 2026
An Illinois federal judge said equity funds alleging Boeing defrauded investors by downplaying the 737 Max jets' safety flaws can pursue claims related to certain statements made after two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019, but not claims tied to a separate door-plug blowout in 2024.