Meta Pans States' Bid For $1.4T In Social Media Addiction MDL

By Emily Field

Meta said Monday that California and three other states are seeking more than a trillion dollars in penalties in their upcoming August trial in the multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, based on sweeping, "unmoored" calculations.

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GM, Drivers Tell 6th Circ. Opt-Outs Delaying $150M Settlement

By Susan Smiley

General Motors and class members who secured a $150 million settlement in a class action over alleged fire risks in the Chevrolet Bolt on Tuesday asked the Sixth Circuit not to let a small group of drivers opt out of the deal — or hold it up in their attempts to do so.

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Calif. Judge Asks About Standing In Google Antitrust Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines has asked for evidence showing that the consumers bringing the case have standing.

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Trucking Co. 'Predictive Model' Doesn't Moot OT, 9th Circ. Told

By Craig Clough

Truck drivers denied overtime under a Fair Labor Standards Act carveout for interstate commerce urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to find they're entitled to the pay, saying that they drove only within California and that their employers' "predictive model" order fulfillment system doesn't qualify their deliveries as interstate commerce.

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Car Dealership Staff Win Class Cert. In Mass. Wage Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts state court has certified a class of employees at dozens of car dealerships under the Herb Chambers brand who alleged they were not paid overtime or Sunday premium pay in accordance with the state's wage law.

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NY Hospital Reaches Deal To End Tobacco Surcharge Suit

By Patrick Hoff

An upstate New York hospital has agreed to settle an employee's proposed class action alleging it unlawfully charged workers who used tobacco hundreds of dollars more per year for health benefits, according to a federal court filing.

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Furniture Store, Delivery Co. Reach $2.5M Deal To End OT Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A furniture retailer and a last-mile delivery company have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement resolving a roughly 9-year-old class action brought by workers alleging delivery truck drivers and helpers were misclassified and denied overtime pay, according to a motion for preliminary approval filed in New Jersey federal court.

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FedEx Hit With Wage Suit Over Security Checks

By Benjamin Morse

FedEx shorted warehouse workers by requiring them to undergo unpaid security screenings before and after their shifts, according to a proposed class action filed in Colorado federal court Tuesday.

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Fee Award Halved In Douglas Elliman Shareholder Settlement

By Hilary Russ

Attorneys representing investors in a derivative litigation over a sexual misconduct scandal involving former top real estate brokers at luxury residential firm Douglas Elliman were awarded $1.87 million in the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday for fees and expenses, about half their original request.

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Judge Sets 2027 Trial For Zillow Home-Flipping Investor Suit

By Nate Beck

A Washington federal judge has scheduled a September 2027 trial date in a class action from investors accusing Zillow of concealing the true performance of its house-flipping business, Zillow Offers.

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Photronics Investor Says 'Critical Bottleneck' Tanked Stock

By Lauren Berg

Semiconductor-maker Photronics Inc. and its top brass made "overwhelmingly positive statements" about the company's growth while it was experiencing a "critical bottleneck" in its product pipeline, leading to a 36.4% stock drop when the truth came out, according to a proposed class action filed in Connecticut federal court.

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Ill. Judge Approves $37M More In PVC Price-Fix Deals

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge gave her early approval Tuesday to more than $37 million in settlements two classes struck with a company defending against accusations that it participated in an illegal price-fixing scheme with other major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers.

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Regeneron Ducks Amgen's Eylea Antitrust Counterclaims

By Bryan Koenig

A West Virginia federal judge dismissed key counterclaims and defenses Tuesday that Amgen had raised against Regeneron's patent infringement lawsuit targeting bids by multiple would-be rivals to produce biosimilar versions of eye medication Eylea, preserving only arguments that Regeneron waited too long to pursue the patent.

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Illinois Cases To Watch In 2026: Midyear Report

By Celeste Bott

Mead Johnson is set to go to trial this summer in the first case to make it to a jury in multidistrict litigation claiming baby formula caused a serious gut illness in premature infants, while the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is facing a possible sanctions hearing over prosecutorial misconduct allegations in two Illinois cases on attorneys' radar for the rest of the year.

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GM's Discovery Bid In Transmission Suit Ruled Burdensome

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Monday refused General Motors LLC's bid for the names and contact dates of drivers who reached out to plaintiffs' counsel in a faulty transmission suit, ruling that the information gathering would be overly burdensome to the plaintiffs and of limited value to GM's statute of limitations defense.

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Cadillac Lyriq Drivers Plan To Move EV Defect Suit To Mich.

By Jonathan Capriel

Cadillac Lyriq owners from six states have dropped their proposed class action against General Motors that claims it sold luxury electric vehicles with defects that cause the SUV to become inoperable, with the counsel for the drivers saying they intend to move the case to Michigan.

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23andMe's $47M Data Breach Deal Gets Bankruptcy Court OK

By Craig Clough

A Missouri bankruptcy judge entered an order Tuesday authorizing a $46.7 million settlement between the plan administration trust created under the Chapter 11 plan of DNA-testing company 23andMe and data breach claimants, finding the deal is fair and equitable. 

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Veradigm Can't Shake Suit Over Patient Portal Data Tracking

By Allison Grande

An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health information to Google, finding that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the company's conduct violated federal and state wiretap laws.

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Consumer Says Graco, Newell Owe Tariff Refunds

By Kelcey Caulder

Graco Children's Products Inc. and Newell Brands Inc. have been hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court over allegations that they retained windfall profits from unlawful tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

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P&G Brushes Off Harm Of Toothpaste Ingredient, Suit Claims

By Gina Kim

Procter & Gamble misleads consumers of its Crest Pro-Health toothpastes by failing to convey that the ingredient sodium lauryl sulfate can damage gum and mouth tissue and trigger inflammation — "the very conditions" the products are marketed as mitigating, a proposed class action alleges in California federal court.

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Justices Stand On Statutory Specifics In Cisco And Landor

With its June 23 decisions in Cisco Systems Inc. v. Doe and Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety, the U.S. Supreme Court doubled down on the critical point that the statute invoked in a federal claim must authorize a private lawsuit and the remedy sought, says Patrick Judd at Phelps Dunbar.

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Have Private Suits Filled Gap Left By SEC's Crypto Pullback?

In the wake of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's regulatory retreat in the crypto space, private litigants have pursued claims across different types of crypto-related activities and market participants, but whether private lawsuits have replaced SEC enforcement remains unclear, says Simona Mola at NERA.

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Ohio Fuels Litigation Funding Debate As Foreign Ban Is Enacted

By Ryan Boysen

Ohio has enacted a sweeping law that bans all foreign litigation funders from doing business in the Buckeye State, drawing praise from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and outrage from the litigation finance industry.

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ABA Seeks Trump Docs In Suit Alleging Law Firm Intimidation

By Emily Sawicki

The Trump administration cannot rely on the presidential communications privilege to block disclosure of communications related to allegations that the president sought to intimidate BigLaw firms into conforming with his policy initiatives, the American Bar Association told a D.C. federal judge.

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Trump's SDNY Pick Steps In As Clayton Focuses On DC

By Pete Brush

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pick to succeed him, James McDonald, will assume a leadership role as Clayton works on his own nomination for director of national intelligence in Washington.

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Judge Says Warning 'Sufficient Deterrent,' Nixing AI Sanctions

By Emily Sawicki

A Kentucky federal judge has declined to sanction two attorneys who filed a brief that included errors generated by artificial intelligence amid a fraud case against a notary public, finding the lawyers had no history of misconduct and had shown sufficient remorse.

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Wis. Judge Avoids Prison Time In ICE Obstruction Sentence

By Nate Beck

A former Wisconsin state judge on Wednesday was fined $5,000 but will not serve prison time for obstructing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest of a defendant in her courtroom by directing him down a private hallway away from agents before he was later captured.

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Del. Judge Recuses Herself From Apollo $570M Payout Suit

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware vice chancellor presiding over litigation regarding a $570 million payout to Apollo Global Management Inc. insiders has disqualified herself from the case after a possible conflict of interest arose due to her former role as an attorney with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, which was involved in a merger with ties to the payout.

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Ga. Judge Rejects UPS Plaintiff's Bid To Force Recusal

By Madison Arnold

A Georgia federal judge reportedly disciplined for having sexual intercourse in her chambers and attending a political event has opted not to recuse herself in the case of a former UPS employee in his dismissed racial discrimination lawsuit.

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McCarter Trial Judge Has 'Serious Doubts' About NY Expert

By Brian Steele

The Hartford judge presiding over a $22.5 million lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP and a former partner said Wednesday he had "serious doubts" about allowing testimony from a defense expert, but let him proceed as long as he did not claim to interpret New York law.

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Morgan & Morgan Malpractice Fight Won't Get Another Review

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected Morgan & Morgan PA's bid to challenge a trial court ruling denying the firm's summary judgment motion in a legal malpractice case brought against it by clients seeking representation in a personal injury action.

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Day Pitney Can't Be Cut Off From New Counsel, Client Says

By Aaron Keller

A former Connecticut chief justice's ethics gaffe cannot preclude fellow lawyers at Day Pitney LLP from communicating with new counsel for John B. Clinton, a private equity management firm owner locked in a 13-year-old, $1.3 million corporate windup lawsuit, Clinton has urged a Connecticut state court judge to conclude.

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