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August 06, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 5 vacated a federal judge’s decision granting an insured’s motion to remand her putative class action against an insurer for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) based on its alleged termination of her late husband’s life insurance policy, writing that in light of recent precedent the judge should have given the insurer an “opportunity to waive” its adequate-remedy-at-law defense before remanding due to lack of equitable jurisdiction.
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August 06, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted a mobile game platform’s motion to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit in which three players accuse it of racketeering, wire fraud and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), as well as New York and Texas consumer protection laws, by deceiving them into spending thousands of dollars on its games with deceptive advertising, finding that the players failed to allege that they relied on the alleged misrepresentations.
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August 06, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal magistrate judge denied an American wet wipes reseller’s motion to dismiss a Chinese company’s breach of contract claim against it for terminating orders made during the coronavirus pandemic for 242,000 canisters of wet wipes but granted its motion to dismiss the claim against it for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL), which the judge said is foreclosed because the Chinese company’s breach of contract claim provides an adequate remedy at law.
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August 04, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part a defense motion to dismiss a putative class action brought by a consumer who claims that “Beats” headphones were deceptively advertised in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) as fully compatible with devices using the Android operating system when not all Beats features work on Android, declining to dismiss the plaintiff’s substantive claims but denying her claim for injunctive relief.
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August 03, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — Finding that new allegations in a consumer’s third amended complaint resolved previously identified deficiencies, a California federal judge denied Shopify Inc.’s motion to dismiss a putative class action against it for allegedly collecting customer data to create and sell individualized profiles in violation of California privacy laws and the state’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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July 31, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Plaintiffs may proceed anonymously in their proposed class action alleging that users of the Grok artificial intelligence platform created fake images of them either naked or in compromising positions, a federal judge in California said July 30.
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July 30, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge denied Delta Air Lines Inc.’s motion to strike a flier’s alleged “sham” declaration after finding that contradictions in the flier’s deposition testimony regarding when she saw the airline’s allegedly misleading advertisements describing itself as “carbon-neutral” based on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments were not proven to be a “sham” instead of “an honest mistake.”
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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 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted a veteran radio journalist’s motion to send his suit against Google LLC and its parent back to state court; the judge agreed with the journalist’s argument that his suit that claims that one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) products mimicked the cadence of his voice focused on the use of his likeness, not the copying of copyrighted material and was thus not preempted by the Copyright Act.
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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.