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July 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A panel of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of an antitrust dispute with Apple Inc. over Apple’s alleged rejection of an app maker’s revamped app to reflect COVID “hot spots,” finding that the proffered complaint fails to “plausibly allege a relevant product market” under the Sherman Act.
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July 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge denied Visa Inc.’s motion for sanctions against counsel for a plaintiff who accuses it of conspiracy to violate sex-trafficking laws and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) for processing payments for the pornography website Pornhub while it allegedly knew or should have known the site had monetized child sex abuse material (CSAM), writing that the plaintiff’s allegations against Visa are not so “baseless” as to be sanctionable.
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July 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — E-cigarette consumers filed an opening brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals urging it to reverse the dismissal of their putative class lawsuit against e-cigarette companies for “greenwashing” their products by calling them “carbon-neutral” in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws, writing that the lower court misapplied precedent to its evaluation of their false advertising claims.
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July 28, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A nonprofit legal foundation on July 28 filed a motion in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for leave to file an amicus curiae brief in which it urges the court to reverse a federal judge’s order certifying several classes of purchasers bringing antitrust claims against Juul Labs Inc. (JLI), Altria Group Inc. and former JLI board members for allegedly seeking to monopolize the e-cigarette market, writing that the ruling would allow California law to be used as “a roving nationwide antitrust enforcer.”
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July 27, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A resident filed a putative class action complaint in California state court against the owners and operators of a refrigerated warehouse and companies responsible for a solar array on its roof, arguing that they are liable after a fire released a toxic plume of anhydrous ammonia, caused small explosions and forced local residents to evacuate their homes.
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July 23, 2026
ST. LOUIS — After 41 states and the District of Columbia (the governmental entities) filed proofs of claim seeking nearly $100 billion in damages arising from the 2023 23andMe Inc. data breach, the trust administering the company’s bankruptcy plan asked a Missouri federal bankruptcy court to issue an order permitting entry into a stipulation that would provide the governmental entities with individual shares of an $18 million settlement.
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July 21, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two consumers filed a nationwide putative class complaint in California federal court accusing an agriculture and produce company worth $8 billion of liability for the “entirely avoidable” contamination of shredded lettuce and leafy greens distributed nationwide with cyclospora, accusing it of negligence, violation of California and New York consumer protection laws and other claims.
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July 21, 2026
CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated and remanded a settlement of claims brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) against the creator and curator of a massive digital photo database after agreeing with two objectors that the nationwide class members lacked a separate representative and counsel to protect their interests when settlement funds were allocated in greater shares to four state subclasses.
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July 20, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on July 17 granted a motion for preliminary approval of a $250 million settlement, including an estimated $70 million in attorney fees, to resolve class claims that Apple Inc. violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by misrepresenting the artificial intelligence capabilities that new iPhone models with “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would provide and overruled an argument by objectors who argued that some class members are entitled to more damages.
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July 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge denied in part a defense motion to dismiss claims that Meta unfairly “bricked” its Portal-brand display devices and rendered them “obsolete” by removing major apps from the products in violation of the unfair prong of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and thereby also breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing but granted the motion with leave to amend as to the plaintiffs’ other claims.
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July 17, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part a supplement maker’s motion to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit accusing it of signing the plaintiff up for a sleep aid subscription based on a free trial promise and denying his request for a refund, finding that the plaintiff’s claims for violation of California unfair competition law (UCL) and other consumer laws were not sufficiently pleaded but denying the motion as to the plaintiff’s claim for violation of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA).
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July 17, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A consumer says in a putative class action filed in California federal court accusing Apple Inc. of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws that he purchased an iPhone in reliance on Apple’s marketing claims regarding privacy and its offer of a “Hide My Email” feature but later learned that the feature does not fully hide users’ emails.
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July 16, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Premium subscribers of YouTube LLC’s video-streaming website filed a putative class action in California federal court against YouTube and its parent company Google LLC for allegedly violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by falsely advertising premium subscriptions as “ad-free,” when in fact even premium subscribers still have to watch advertisements placed in certain videos by content creators.
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July 16, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part an adult website’s motion to dismiss a putative class suit accusing it of tracking users’ activities, dismissing with prejudice the plaintiffs’ claims for violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and their claim for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) but allowing other claims to continue because the plaintiffs did not “consent” to data tracking and the website did not fully disclose its data-tracking practices.
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July 15, 2026
SAN DIEGO — An IT staffing company accused of failing to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of current and former employees will pay $610,000 to end the class claims, according to an order in a federal court in California granting final settlement approval.
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July 14, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of U.K. citizens on July 13 filed notice in California federal court that they will appeal to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a ruling dismissing with prejudice their putative class action against two companies that own and operate the “Honey” discount-finding browser extension for false marketing in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws.
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July 14, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California appellate panel on July 13 reversed a judgment dismissing a lawsuit brought by an orthopedic spine surgeon accusing an insurer of interference with prospective economic relations for allegedly retaliating against him after he advocated for his patients to receive coverage for spinal surgeries.
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July 14, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge, upon reviewing the pleadings in a removed lawsuit accusing several insurers of failing to timely pay a plastic surgery office for out-of-network costs that were approved by an arbitrator, remanded the suit sua sponte after determining that the office’s claim for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), purportedly based on an alleged violation of the federal No Surprises Act (NSA), does not create federal question jurisdiction.
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July 10, 2026
SEATTLE — A Washington federal judge on July 9 granted summary judgment and dismissed with prejudice a putative class action against Amazon.com Inc. and its wholly owned audiobook-focused subsidiary Audible Inc. accusing them of enrolling a consumer in an Audible subscription and charging her renewal fees without consent in violation of California consumer protection laws, finding that following discovery the plaintiff had failed to prove that she was misled into subscribing to Audible.
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July 10, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on July 9 granted in part and denied in part Visa Inc.’s motion to dismiss certain claims against it arising out of its processing of payments for the pornography website Pornhub brought by a plaintiff who claims that the website monetized child sex abuse material (CSAM) made of her while she was a minor, dismissing a civil conspiracy claim but allowing claims to proceed for conspiracy to violate sex-trafficking laws and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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July 09, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge denied three food companies’ motion to certify an interlocutory appeal of the court’s denial of their motion to dismiss a putative class action accusing them of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by marketing their products for children under the age of 2 with nutrient content claims, writing that the issue of the adoption into state law of Food and Drug Administration labeling regulations has been addressed before and is not “a live dispute within the Ninth Circuit.”
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July 09, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A user of Apple Inc.’s proprietary web browser, Safari, filed a putative class action lawsuit in California federal court accusing Apple of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by deceptively advertising the browser as “a private, secure web browser that does not disclose individuals’ personal information” when it allegedly allows third-party tracking of users’ data.
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July 07, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part a motion for summary judgment filed by the manufacturer of a wearable fitness tracker that is facing class claims for $28.2 million in damages allegedly caused by its automatic renewal of customers’ subscriptions and dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims that were brought seeking equitable restitution or injunctive relief.
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July 07, 2026
CHICAGO — The manufacturer of a hyaluronic acid (HA) filler injection failed to warn consumers of the risk of developing hard masses called granulomas, “hard lumps that appear lighter or darker than the surrounding skin and can be exceedingly painful to touch,” a woman alleges in a putative class action complaint filed in an Illinois federal court.
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July 06, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Following a bench trial, a California federal judge ruled in favor of an insurer who sought reimbursement of legal costs that an insured obtained in defending against a suit accusing him of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by posting fake Craigslist ads under a business competitor’s name purportedly seeking sexual encounters, finding that the insured’s conduct was excluded from coverage because it was willful and intentional.