Consumer Cases Drive Class Action Spike, Report Says

By Y. Peter Kang

Federal class action filings spiked in 2025 after nearly a decade of relative stability, fueled by a surge in consumer protection lawsuits tied to data breaches, digital commerce and online accessibility claims, according to a new report from Lex Machina.

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'A Bunch Of Games': MDL Judge Irked By Meta, AGs Sparring

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of Meta Platforms Inc.'s request for a summary judgment win over claims by state attorneys general in multidistrict social media addiction litigation, saying repeatedly that many disputes should be resolved at trial and panning some arguments by both sides as "a bunch of games."

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NC Passenger Tells Jury Of 'Disgusting' Uber Driver Assault

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina woman recounted for a federal jury on Wednesday how an Uber driver sexually assaulted her in 2019, rebuffing the ride-hailing giant's suggestion that the incident never occurred and describing how she felt "grossed out," "horrified" and "terrified."

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Honda Inks Deal To End Defective Fuel Pump Class Suit

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of vehicle owners is asking an Alabama federal court for preliminary approval of a settlement to end a six-year suit alleging American Honda Motor Co. Inc. sold vehicles with defective fuel pumps made by Denso International America Inc.

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Counsel In Ex-Chartwell Atty Firing Suit Told To Ease Off

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge said Wednesday she wanted more information about a sanctions motion allegedly filed with hallucinated AI citations and urged attorneys to "bring the temperature down" in an ex-Chartwell Law Offices LLP attorney's suit claiming she was fired for posting social media statements criticizing military action in Gaza.

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Pa. Health System Sheds Privacy Claim In Meta Pixel Action

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Pennsylvania regional health system escaped allegations that it intruded on the privacy of visitors to its website by using Meta's Pixel but must face a negligence claim, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled in trimming a proposed class action.

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Amazon Alexa Users Seek To Revive Class Deception Claims

By Rachel Riley

A group of Amazon Alexa users has urged a Washington federal judge to reinstate their class consumer protection claims based on allegations the devices secretly recorded their personal conversations, contending the court ignored competing evidence when determining Amazon clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental activations.

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Ocean Spray Settles OT Suit After Most Claims Fall Away

By MJ Koo

A proposed wage lawsuit settlement against juice manufacturer Ocean Spray would compensate only a small portion of the workers in the case after their lawyers determined the company correctly calculated overtime and the claims of the other workers likely wouldn't succeed, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.

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Avis Misclassified Managers, Withheld OT, Suit Claims

By Taylor Bowie

Avis Car Rental misclassified salaried managers as exempt to avoid paying the proper overtime rate, even though their duties consisted of routine tasks typical for unionized staff who qualify for extra pay, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Virginia federal court Tuesday.

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Target Says Workers' Walking Time Not Compensable

By Benjamin Morse

Target urged a Washington federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action alleging workers were not paid for time spent walking inside a distribution center before and after their shifts, arguing the activity is part of a normal commute and not compensable work under state law.

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Oilfield Co. Required Worker LLCs, Denied OT, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

An oilfield services company misclassified workers as independent contractors and required them to create their own limited liability companies to continue working there, according to a proposed collective and class action filed in Colorado federal court.

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7th Circ. Questions Resort Co.'s 'Radio Silence' On Arbitration

By Celeste Bott

A Seventh Circuit judge on Wednesday pressed an attorney for a resort company that is arguing a lower court incorrectly found it waived its right to arbitrate Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims against more than 1,000 class members to address why it didn't raise the subject of arbitration earlier as it litigated the case over seven years.

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Collective Expanded In OT Suit Against Land Management Co.

By Irene Spezzamonte

New affidavits workers provided in their overtime suit against a land management company support their bid to expand their collective on a nationwide basis, a Maryland federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the company's argument that the request was a "second bite at the apple."

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Cvent Investors Reach $12M Deal To End Take-Private Suit

By Katryna Perera

Stockholders of cloud-based event management technology provider Cvent Holding Corp. have reached a $12 million settlement with the company, its top brass and its controlling shareholder over claims that they breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the company's $4.6 billion take-private sale to affiliates of Blackstone Inc.

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Drugmaker Aquestive's Brass Sued Over FDA Setback

By Sydney Price

Executives and directors of pharmaceutical company Aquestive Therapeutics Inc. were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit Wednesday accusing them of ignoring deficiencies in a research study for Aquestive's allergic reaction treatment, which eventually prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reject the company's new drug application.

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Chamber Backs 9th Circ. Rehearing Of Funko Investor Suit

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is backing Funko Inc.'s call for Ninth Circuit to rehear an investor dispute over the toy-maker's write-down of excessive inventory, arguing that the court's decision to revive the lawsuit "degrades a critical firewall against abusive litigation."

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Circle Failed To Freeze $280M Lost In April 1 Hack, Suit Says

By Aislinn Keely

Circle is facing a proposed class action from a Missouri crypto user who accused the stablecoin issuer of failing to intervene and freeze assets as unknown hackers drained an estimated $280 million in digital assets from crypto project Drift Protocol in an April Fools' Day exploit.

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$7M Grubhub TM Deal Receives Ill. Judge's Final OK

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge gave her final blessing Wednesday to a $7.1 million settlement between Grubhub and more than 7,000 restaurants that say the food delivery service used their trademarks without permission to gain a competitive edge over DoorDash and Uber Eats.

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2nd Agri Stats Settlement OK'd In Turkey Price-Fixing Suit

By Lauraann Wood

A federal judge overseeing turkey price-fixing litigation in Illinois gave the initial green light Wednesday to a settlement Agri Stats Inc. struck to end purchasers' accusations that the company's informational reports helped facilitate the allegedly anticompetitive conspiracy, marking the deal's second approval in as many days.

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Amazon Can't Nix MIT Economist Input On Antitrust Case

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge has shot down Amazon's bid to rule out a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor's opinions backing proposed class antitrust claims, finding the expert used a "peer reviewed economic model based on real-world transactional data" to conclude that Amazon's "anti-discounting policies" heightened prices in other online marketplaces.

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Chancery Trims Liberty Media SiriusXM Deal Suit

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has partially trimmed a stockholder challenge to Liberty Media Corp.'s restructuring of its Sirius XM Holdings Inc. stake, dismissing claims against a special committee while allowing others to proceed against directors accused of favoring the company's controller.

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Arbitration Assoc. Says Monopoly Suit Poses 'Massive Risks'

By Rae Ann Varona

The American Arbitration Association has urged an Arizona federal court to reconsider a ruling that allowed a monopoly suit against the association to proceed, saying that sustaining antitrust claims against the arbitration provider based on template arbitration clauses on its website poses "massive risks" for millions of customer arbitration contracts.

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Brief

Poppi Soda Buyers Get Final OK For $8.9M False Ad Deal

By Jonathan Capriel

A California federal judge granted final approval to an $8.9 million settlement that resolves false advertising claims alleging the company behind the Poppi soda brand misleadingly touted its products as "prebiotics for a healthy gut."

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Don't Squeeze 'Mega' Charmin Cause It's A Trick, Suit Says

By Craig Clough

Charmin toilet paper rose to prominence off its classic "don't squeeze the Charmin" campaign, but a proposed class action filed in California state court Wednesday suggests a reason not to squeeze its "mega" sized product is because it is fooling customers through a comparison to a "phantom" product that doesn't exist.

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Women's Health Co. Accused Of Unauthorized Data Sharing

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A private women's healthcare system is facing a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court that alleges it allowed third parties to use sensitive patient information without consent or notice.

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Brigit To Take Fight Over 'Instant' Wage Advances To 2nd Circ.

By Katryna Perera

Short-term cash advance company Brigit has said it will appeal a New York federal judge's refusal to dismiss a proposed class action alleging it overcharged military borrowers with its "Instant Cash" earned-wage advances, which the judge ruled qualified as consumer loans under federal law.

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Parking Lot Signs Bind Drivers To Arbitration, Judge Says

By MJ Koo

A proposed class action claiming a parking company unlawfully overcharged drivers must go to arbitration, a Colorado federal judge has ruled, finding that lot signs bearing the arbitration clause were sufficient notice, whether or not drivers saw them.

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NCAA Changes Prize Money Rule, Puts Eligibility Fix On Hold

By David Steele

The NCAA on Wednesday adopted new rules that allow incoming athletes to keep prize money and still be able to compete in college, and lets prospects enter their sports' pro draft without costing them their eligibility.

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Mortgage Co. Says Vets' Fraud Scheme Claims Distort Truth

By Sydney Price

Veterans United Home Loans told a Missouri federal judge that a proposed class action alleging the company directs veterans toward expensive mortgages fails to show the homebuyers were prevented from considering other lending options and uses altered images to exaggerate claims the company's website is misleading.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: April Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy identifies practice tips from three recent rulings involving allegations of racial discrimination in mortgage applications, health insurance networks and actual cash value losses.

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5 Key Questions Attys Should Ask About Statistical Analyses

Even attorneys without a background in statistics can effectively vet the general concepts of a statistical analysis by asking targeted questions and can thereby reinforce the credibility and relevance of expert testimony — or expose its weaknesses, say Katrina Schydlower and Christopher Cunio at Hunton and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

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Meta, Uber Verdicts Top Product Liability Trials

By Emily Field

So far this year, juries have delivered landmark verdicts against Meta and Google in pending litigation over whether major social media companies design platforms that ultimately harm young users. Uber also saw a defeat in the first federal bellwether to go to a jury over its liability for assaults committed by its drivers earlier this year, and opening arguments started this week in the second trial in another sexual assault case brought by a rider. Here are the highlights of verdicts that topped headlines so far into 2026.

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Analysis

Bondi's Contempt Defenses Are Strong, But Not Without Risk

By Phillip Bantz

Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi currently has some potentially powerful defenses against Congress' relatively limited abilities to force her to comply with a subpoena to be deposed under oath about the Epstein files, but her exposure to being held in criminal contempt could shift with the political winds, experts said.

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Calif. Lawyer Sues Over State Bar Investigations

By Andrea Keckley

A California trial lawyer claimed in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that he has been unfairly investigated by the state bar since 2019, alleging the office "illegally prioritizes revenue-generation over protection of the public."

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Analysis

AGs' Win Over Live Nation Leaves DOJ Watching From The Side

By Bryan Koenig

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.'s across-the-board trial rout by 34 state attorneys general underscores the ascendancy of state antitrust enforcers looking to fill perceived enforcement gaps left by the U.S. Department of Justice during President Donald Trump's second term.

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NJ US Atty's Office Turmoil Doesn't Nix Conviction, Judge Rules

By Carla Baranauckas

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a New Jersey criminal defendant's attempt to dismiss his conviction and disqualify the state's top federal prosecutor, holding that the appointment of the current U.S. attorney complies with federal law and that any earlier defects in leadership do not warrant dismissal.

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Ramey Says Sanctions Violation Was 'Misunderstanding'

By Elliot Weld

William Ramey, an intellectual property attorney sanctioned in several federal jurisdictions, told a California federal judge Thursday that any violations of a previous sanctions order regarding his ability to practice law in the state were due to "good-faith misunderstanding of the scope of the court's order — not willful disregard."

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Judge Doubts Broad Shift In Immigration Hearing Access

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge appeared unconvinced Thursday by a human rights group's claim that the public is getting less access to immigration court hearings in Minnesota during the second Trump administration.

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Optimum Defends Antitrust Suit Against Apollo, BlackRock

By Alex Wittenberg

Apollo, Ares, BlackRock and other financial giants are colluding to block Optimum Communications Inc. from negotiating a debt refinancing to avert bankruptcy, acting as a "cartel" and locking Optimum out of credit markets, Optimum said in a brief opposing the investors' bid to dismiss its antitrust suit in New York.

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Sentencing Commission Votes To Enact Modest Reform Agenda

By Stewart Bishop

The U.S. Sentencing Commission on Thursday voted to enact multiple revisions to the federal sentencing guidelines, including the first inflationary adjustment in over a decade for calculating penalties for economic crimes, but declined to take action on a series of more transformational changes that were under consideration.

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