Equity Residential Cuts $56M Deal In RealPage MDL

By Katryna Perera

A Chicago-based real estate investment trust has reached a $56 million settlement in a sprawling, multidistrict antitrust class action that claims the REIT and multiple landlords used property management software company RealPage Inc.'s revenue management software for rent price-fixing.

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5th Circ. Axes Southwest Customers' 737 Max Overcharge Suit

By Linda Chiem

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday shut down proposed class claims alleging Southwest Airlines overcharged consumers for riskier flights on Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, saying the consumers' alleged economic injury theory was implausible and that they lacked standing to sue.

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Citizens Group Says 27 States Are Eyeing AI Chatbot Laws

By Joyce Hanson

Twenty-seven U.S. states are looking at passing laws to make artificial intelligence companies face liability claims in civil suits if they fail to protect consumers who interact with chatbots, while another three states have already enacted protections, according to a citizens group's new legislative tracker.

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Seattle Art Museum Denied Breaks, Full Pay, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

The Seattle Art Museum failed to pay nonexempt employees for all hours worked and denied them legally required meal and rest breaks, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington state court.

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Security Co. Fails To Pay For Pre-, Postshift Walks, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A security and facility services company has been shortchanging workers by failing to pay them for mandatory preshift and postshift walks to their workstations, according to a proposed class action in Pennsylvania state court.

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Agricultural Workers Seek Atty Fees After Co.'s No-Show

By Benjamin Morse

Farmworkers who accused agricultural companies of wage violations asked a Colorado federal judge to award nearly $24,000 in attorney fees and costs after one defendant and its lawyer stopped participating in discovery and ignored court orders.

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US Bank Shorted Wash. Workers On Meals, Breaks, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

U.S. Bank denied hourly employees meal and rest breaks, and shorted them on overtime and sick leave pay, two former workers alleged in a proposed class action filed in Washington state court.

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Workers Say Folded Boston Pot Shops Owe Them Pay

By Jonathan Capriel

Former employees of two defunct Boston marijuana dispensaries, both called Pure Oasis, are suing the companies behind the shops and their owners in Massachusetts state court, accusing them of failing to pay out final wages and earned vacation time after the leaders decided to close the shops without warning.

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Brief

6th Circ. Asks Retirees To Answer Mortality Data Suit Redo Bid

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit on Thursday asked participants in Kellogg and FedEx pension plans to respond to the companies' bids for reconsideration of the court's decision to revive their lawsuits alleging benefits were miscalculated because the plans used outdated mortality data.

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Brief

4th Circ. Seeks Genworth's Take On 401(k) Suit Rehearing Bid

By Patrick Hoff

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday sought Genworth Financial Inc.'s response to employee 401(k) participants who asked the court to rethink nixing class certification in their lawsuit alleging their retirement savings were bogged down by underperforming BlackRock Inc. target date funds.

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7th Circ. Wary Of Burford Entities' Late Opt-Out Of $32M Deal

By Celeste Bott

A Seventh Circuit panel appeared skeptical Thursday of two Burford Capital entities' argument that a lower court wrongly denied their day-late request to opt out of a $32 million price-fixing settlement between Cargill Inc. and a class of direct turkey purchasers, with one judge probing how hard a court needs to work "to save a sophisticated party from its own mistakes."

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Colo. Fire District Hits Manufacturers With Price-Fixing Suit

By Benjamin Morse

The nation's largest fire truck manufacturers and an industry trade group conspired to restrict supply and inflate prices, forcing municipalities to pay millions more for emergency equipment, a Colorado fire protection district alleged in a proposed class action filed in federal court.

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Fanatics, Sports Leagues Push For Exit In Trading Card Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

Fanatics Inc., the NBA, the NFL and MLB told a New York federal judge her dismissal of an antitrust suit brought by consumers who bought trading cards from Fanatics should also sink a class action lodged by indirect purchasers.

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San Diego Alleges Fire Truck-Makers Attempted Monopoly

By Elaine Briseño

San Diego has alleged in a federal lawsuit that fire truck manufacturers REV Group and Oshkosh Corp., along with private equity firm American Industrial Partners, orchestrated an anticompetitive scheme to consolidate the market and charge municipalities across the nation inflated prices.

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Bissell Hit With Class Action Over Recalled Steamers

By Jonathan Capriel

Vacuum company Bissell faces a proposed class action over the nearly 1.7 million steam cleaners it recalled this month due to complaints that components on the devices "unexpectedly detach," expelling hot water onto users, according to a complaint filed in Illinois federal court.

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Lemonade To Pay $10.5M In Driver's License Data Breach Suit

By Gina Kim

Lemonade will pay $10.5 million to settle with a proposed class of over 190,000 individuals who said the tech-forward insurer's online quote platform negligently disclosed their drivers' license numbers to cybercriminals, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Wednesday in New York federal court. 

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Video Game, DVD Buyers Seek Final OK In $1.57M VPPA Deal

By Gina Kim

Video game and DVD seller DirectToU and wholesaler Alliance Entertainment will pay nearly $1.6 million to settle allegations from a class of more than 9,000 customers that their purchasing information was shared with Facebook through a tracking pixel embedded in the companies' platforms, according to a final approval motion filed in California federal court.

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Sirius XM Listeners Seek Final OK Of $28M Telemarketing Deal

By Craig Clough

A class of Sirius XM subscribers asked an Illinois federal judge Wednesday to give final approval to a $28 million settlement resolving claims that the satellite radio company made repeated telemarketing calls to people listed on the National Do Not Call Registry or Sirius XM's own internal do-not-call list.

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Brita Filter Labels Don't Dupe Consumers, 9th Circ. Affirms

By Rae Ann Varona

A reasonable consumer would not expect a low-cost Brita filter to remove or reduce all common tap water contaminants to below lab detectable limits, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday, affirming the dismissal of a consumer's proposed false advertising class action against the manufacturer.

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MoneyLion Hit With Wash. Class Action Over Referral Texts

By Ben Adlin

A program from fintech platform MoneyLion encouraging users to refer friends to the service has flooded Washington residents with unsolicited text messages in violation of the state's Commercial Electronic Mail Act, alleges a putative class action removed to Seattle federal court Wednesday.

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From Hospital Bed, Ex-Uber Driver Denies Sexual Assault

By Hayley Fowler

A former Uber driver denied sexually assaulting a North Carolina woman in a video deposition taken from his hospital bed, telling jurors in a Charlotte courtroom on Thursday that he has no memory of the passenger who is suing the ride-share giant over the alleged incident.

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OpenAI, Musk OK With Bifurcated Trial And Advisory Jury

By Lauren Berg

Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft agreed Thursday to a California federal judge's proposal to bifurcate the trial's liability phase from the remedies phase in a case challenging the artificial intelligence company's conversion to a for-profit entity, and that the jury for the liability phase should serve on an advisory basis.

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Nvidia Fights Uphill For Big Trim Of Authors' AI Copyright Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge indicated Thursday that he won't grant Nvidia Corp.'s request to permanently toss the bulk of a proposed class action by authors who say the artificial intelligence giant unlawfully copied their copyrighted material to develop its LLMs, but will pare some claims with leave to amend.

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Timeshare Exit Patrons Nab Reversal In Coverage Denial Row

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Washington federal judge held she made a "mistake" when she rejected arguments that an insurer acted in bad faith by declining to defend a now-defunct timeshare exit company from a consumer protection class action that yielded a $630 million deal.

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Progressive Beats Class Bid In Total-Loss Valuation Suit

By Mark Payne

An Illinois federal judge declined to certify a class of Progressive Insurance customers who claimed the insurer underpaid on their total-loss vehicle claims by adding a downward pricing adjustment, ruling that the customers' experiences were too different to resolve in one case. 

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Feds Can't Stay Trans Healthcare Orders During Appeal

By Mark Payne

The Trump administration won't be able to enforce two executive orders that ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 19 while the federal government appeals a nationwide injunction blocking the orders, the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday. 

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Capital One Hit With Class Action Over Canceled Rewards

By Katryna Perera

Capital One has been hit with a proposed class action in Virginia federal court accusing it of unlawfully canceling billions of dollars in earned credit card rewards by unilaterally closing customers' accounts without cause.

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Tenn. Judge Keeps Filipino Nurses' Trafficking Suit Alive

By Britain Eakin

A Tennessee federal judge denied a bid by a long-term care provider and a foreign nursing recruiter to dismiss a proposed class action brought by Filipino nurses who alleged they were forced to sign abusive contracts that amount to "indentured servitude."

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Opinion

BNP Paribas Case Could Upend Global Banking Norms

If upheld on appeal, a New York federal jury's multimillion-dollar verdict against BNP Paribas would create an unpredictable liability landscape for global financial institutions in which fully lawful services in foreign countries can give rise to civil liability in U.S. courts, in a manner contrary to federal law, say attorneys at White & Case.

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Series

Isshin-Ryu Karate Makes Me A Better Lawyer

My involvement in martial arts, specifically Isshin-ryu, which has principles rooted in the eight codes of karate, has been one of the most foundational in the development of my personality, and particularly my approach to challenges — including in my practice of law, says Kaitlyn Stone at Barnes & Thornburg.

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Another Record-Breaking Year For NY Lobbying: Watchdog

By Andrea Keckley

The amount of money spent on lobbying in New York state reached a new high — again — in 2025 despite lower dollar amounts from that year's top spenders, a state ethics and lobbying watchdog said Thursday.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Aston Martin file an appeal in a row with Chinese carmaker Geely over its winged logo for London black cabs, Ineos sue Ben Ainslie's America's Cup team for a £180 million ($244 million) boat, White & Case face a claim from two energy storage companies, and a golf tour company bring a claim against Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund after the fund invested in its rival.

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Alaska-Hawaiian Merger Judge Mulls DQ Over O'Melveny Ties

By Craig Clough

The parties in a consumer lawsuit challenging Alaska Airlines' 2024 acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines have been notified that the federal judge recently assigned to the case intends to disqualify himself unless they sign a waiver over one of his retirement accounts being tied to O'Melveny & Myers LLP, which is representing Alaska Airlines.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

New data found that some companies are being wary during the 2026 proxy season by negotiating deals behind closed doors rather than allowing shareholders to vote on issues. In the meantime, a report showed that the higher annual rate growth for outside counsel fees that began in 2022 has become the new normal. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Winston & Strawn LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal jury found that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary harmed competition in the live entertainment sector by willfully monopolizing ticketing services.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Juror Bias, First For Revenge Porn Law

By Orlando Lorenzo

The California Supreme Court tossed the conviction and death sentence in a double slaying over the trial court's failures to investigate claims of juror bias, and an Ohio man is believed to be the first person in the nation convicted under a federal law intended to battle revenge porn.

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