Workers Snag Deal In $500M Twitter Severance Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

Social media platform X has agreed to settle a suit accusing it of owing workers $500 million in severance after Elon Musk took the reins of the company while it was still named Twitter, the two workers suing and the entity told the Ninth Circuit.

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Amazon Bags Toss Of Grocery Delivery Fee Disclosure Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A Washington federal judge on Wednesday threw out a proposed class action that alleged the Amazon Fresh website waited too late in the checkout process to disclose delivery fees, saying the conditions of use on Amazon.com Inc.'s websites prevented a woman from lodging claims under California law.

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Nikola SPAC, Related Settlements Reach $33.75M In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

A multi-court string of settlements has produced a $33.75 million proposed payout for stockholders who alleged in direct and derivative state and federal actions that they were misled in deals that took electric vehicle maker Nikola Corp. public.

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Google Got App Data Profits After Pledging Privacy, Jury Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

A computer scientist testifying in a multibillion-dollar privacy lawsuit alleging Google LLC illegally collected data from 98 million cellphone users who had opted out of tracking told a California federal jury Thursday that the tech giant stores information about their app use in a "shadow account" and uses it to sell ads.

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Employer Plans In Limbo As Courts Grapple With Trans Care

By Kellie Mejdrich

Despite appellate courts' apparent willingness to allow states to ban gender-affirming care for minors, employers are still waiting for clarity on whether federal anti-discrimination laws require health plans to cover transgender healthcare access, experts say.

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UC Grant Cuts Over DEI Likely Stifle Speech, 9th Circ. Says

By Lauren Berg

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday refused to pause a preliminary injunction requiring three federal agencies to reinstate research grants terminated following two of President Donald Trump's executive orders seeking to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion, saying the terminations likely aimed to suppress speech favorable of DEI and environmental justice.

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Guards Say DHS Contractor Can't Escape Wage Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

Employees of a contractor providing security at a U.S. Department of Homeland Security campus told a D.C. federal judge the company can't use a union agreement to escape allegations it's violating the district's wage and overtime laws.

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American Airlines Knocks Out Class Cert. In Military Leave Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted American Airlines' bid to revoke class certification in a suit alleging the airline unlawfully denied pilots pay and profit-sharing credit for time spent on military leave, agreeing the case raises too many individual questions.

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Software Startup Catamorphic Settles Wage, OT Class Action

By Julie Manganis

Software startup Catamorphic has agreed to settle a proposed class action brought by three former sales employees in Massachusetts and California who say the company failed to pay them overtime and engaged in other "widespread, repeated and consistent" violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a Wednesday court filing says.

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Steakhouse Again Asks To Decertify Class In Conn. Wage Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Connecticut state court's findings that a steakhouse at the Foxwoods Resort Casino was not liable for untipped work should have dismantled a class of tipped servers claiming unpaid wages, the steakhouse argued.

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Fintech Co. Ryvyl's $1M Investor Settlement Gets Initial OK

By Sydney Price

A California federal court has granted preliminary approval to fintech company Ryvyl Inc.'s $1 million cash and stock class action settlement with investors who accused the company of concealing its accounting issues.

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BlockFi Judge Urged To OK $13M Deal As Objector Withdraws

By Katryna Perera

Investors who reached a $13.2 million settlement with the failed cryptocurrency lender BlockFi Inc. have urged a federal judge to move forward with the plan now that a class member has withdrawn his objections to the deal.

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Digital Ad Co. Misled Investors About Client Loss, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

Digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. and two of its executives have been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in California federal court alleging they failed to inform investors about the loss of a key customer for its digital marketing business, which led to a stock price decline when the truth came to light.

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Snap Inc. Hit With Investor Suit Over Ad Platform Glitch

By Sydney Price

Snapchat's parent company, Snap Inc., was hit with a proposed shareholder class action Thursday in California federal court accusing it of concealing the effects of a glitch on its advertising auction system that caused it to lose revenue.

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Kanner & Pintaluga Seeks Sanctions Over Accident Data Suit

By Hope Patti

Kanner & Pintaluga PA asked a Texas federal court to sanction a Houston couple and their counsel in a proposed class action accusing the firm and since-dismissed Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. of conspiring to share auto crash victims' private information, saying the claims are based on unverified and inadmissible hearsay.

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Tire Cos. Resist Bid To Add EU Probe Info to Price-Hike Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Tire manufacturers including Bridgestone, Goodyear and Michelin are urging an Ohio federal court not to let buyers update their antitrust case accusing the companies of fixing prices to include additional allegations stemming from a European Commission investigation.

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Judge OKs Deal To End Misrepresented Pickleball Paddle Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday approved a settlement resolving a class action accusing a pickleball paddle manufacturer of deceptively marketing its products as certified by the sport's governing body that will pay out up to $300 to each class member.

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Fertility Co. Says Deception Suit 'Mischaracterizes' Test

By Benjamin Morse

A fertility clinic chain is urging a Colorado federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing it of deceptively marketing genetic tests of embryos, saying the claims are time-barred, lack required expert backing and specificity, and don't identify any actionable misstatements.

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Biz Groups Appeal Calif. Climate Reporting Ruling To 9th Circ.

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have appealed a court order rejecting their bid to block new California state regulations requiring large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks that they claim violate their First Amendment rights.

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Minor Leaguers Ask Justices To Kill MLB Antitrust Exemption

By Matthew Perlman

Former players accusing Major League Baseball and its teams of colluding to pay minor leaguers "poverty level" wages are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case and overturn baseball's century-old exemption from antitrust law.

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Assessing Federal Securities Class Action Stats In '25 So Far

The settlement amount as a percentage of damages in securities class actions has continued to decline in the first half of 2025, a trend that may be important for assessing exposure and risk in future securities litigation, say analysts at Analysis Group.

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Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.

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Judge Finds Habba Unlawfully Serving As NJ's US Atty

By Matthew Santoni

Alina Habba, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and his pick to remain the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, was unlawfully given an extension of her temporary post after her "interim" appointment expired, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday.

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SEC Taps Military Judge To Head Enforcement Efforts

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday announced the appointment of a senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to lead its enforcement division.

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OnlyFans Flags Bogus Citations In RICO Fraud Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Attorneys for a proposed class of OnlyFans subscribers alleging racketeering by the company notified a California federal judge Thursday that they would be seeking permission to fix earlier filings found to have errors created by artificial intelligence, days after the web platform's parent company notified the court of the citation errors.

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NY Appeals Court Throws Out Trump's $500M Fraud Penalty

By Phillip Bantz

A divided New York state appeals court panel on Thursday tossed a nearly $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump and his sons, companies and their executives, ruling that the fine was "excessive," but kept in place a judge's finding of liability.

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9th Circ. Dissenters Rip Judge's 'Weaponization Of Sanctions'

By Jeff Overley

A half-dozen Ninth Circuit judges Thursday denounced six-figure sanctions against attorneys for prominent politicians challenging Arizona election procedures, accusing a lower court of "twisting and contorting" allegations in order to punish lawyers "based on the nature of the complaint and the clients that they represented."

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Odell Beckham Wants Attys Sanctioned In Diddy Assault Suit

By Adrian Cruz

NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. is looking to sanction attorneys representing a woman accusing him in California federal court of participating in a Bay Area gang rape alongside rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, claiming the allegations are frivolous and the attorneys willfully ignored available evidence in making them.

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Trump To Get Texas Vacancy With Judge Taking Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. District Judge David Godbey of the Northern District of Texas, who was at the center of a debate on judge shopping last year, will take senior status on Sept. 17, according to an update posted on the federal judiciary's website on Thursday.

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California Bar Board Of Trustees Gets 1st Nonattorney Chair

By Rose Krebs

The California Supreme Court announced Thursday that for the first time ever, a nonattorney will lead the State Bar of California's Board of Trustees starting Sept. 21.

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Ex-Prosecutor Sworn In As Ga. US Atty In Southern District

By Emily Johnson

A longtime Georgia attorney, who served as chair of Georgia's State Board of Pardons and Paroles and previously served as a district attorney, was sworn in this week as interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.

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Ethics Case Reasserted Against Fla. Judge Over Deepfake

By Matt Perez

A Florida judicial ethics panel has reasserted allegations that a state judge in Broward County violated the state's Code of Judicial Conduct during her 2024 election campaign, ahead of a final hearing set for Dec. 16 by the hearing panel chair of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission.

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