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September 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A furniture company on Sept. 10 lodged a proposed judgment in California federal court dismissing a putative class action against it with prejudice after a judge granted its motion to dismiss a suit accusing it of deceptively listing its prices as discounted in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other California laws, finding the company’s terms of use do not apply and none of the plaintiffs are from California or bought products in California.
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September 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on Sept. 10 denied Ford Motor Co.’s motion to dismiss a third amended complaint accusing it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by concealing an alleged defect with electronic door handles in certain car models that could leave the doors locked and unable to be opened when the vehicles lose power, writing that its arguments were previously raised and rejected before a new plaintiff was substituted.
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September 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Four plaintiffs filed a putative class action complaint in California federal court alleging that PayPal Inc., d/b/a Venmo, is tracking the details of users’ financial transactions on its Venmo payment-processing app and sharing them with third parties even when users set their accounts to private, in violation of privacy laws and California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 11, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge awarded $146.78 million in attorney fees and service awards totaling $135,000 in a privacy class action over Google LLC’s collection of mobile-app data, while in a separate posttrial order the judge denied the plaintiffs a new trial on their California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) claim and rejected Google’s bid to overturn a $425.65 million privacy verdict.
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September 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge denied a motion by two companies that operate a parking payment app to compel arbitration of putative class claims against them for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by misleading customers into paying more for less parking than they receive after finding that users did not properly assent to arbitration, but granted the companies’ motion to dismiss for failure to plead deception and injury.
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September 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Eli Lilly and Co. may proceed with a civil conspiracy theory against a pharmacy involved in providing compounded tirzepatide based on alleged violations of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) but cannot proceed with claims that the pharmacy and telehealth providers conspired to violate the Lanham Act, a California federal judge ruled in partially granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss.
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September 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A parent and a 13-year-old girl filed a putative nationwide class action in California federal court against Sephora USA Inc. alleging it is violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by marketing skincare and beauty products to minors that the plaintiffs say Sephora knows contain chemicals that are not suitable for use by young people and may cause them to develop harmful skin conditions.
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September 09, 2026
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A man facing murder charges filed a civil complaint in California state court accusing Flock Group Inc., which operates automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology and AI software, and two law enforcement officials of withholding relevant Flock data from the court where the prosecution is taking place, allegedly in violation of his due process rights and California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 08, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled that a California federal judge properly denied online video game developer Roblox Corp.’s renewed motion to compel arbitration of claims brought against it for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by marketing itself as safe for kids when it allegedly is not because Roblox participated in litigation on the merits before invoking its arbitration clause.
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September 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The plaintiff bringing class claims against a car manufacturer over an alleged headrest defect on Sept. 4 filed a response brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to deny a car manufacturer’s petition for a writ of certiorari over the enforceability of delegation clauses in arbitration agreements by nonsignatories, denying that there is a circuit split over the issue and writing that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals properly denied arbitration.
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September 02, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Three lawsuits were filed in a California court against State Farm General Insurance Co. within a span of three weeks, all alleging breach of contract and accusing the insurer of mishandling insurance claims arising from the Palisades and Eaton wildfires.
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September 01, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A child support recipient says in an appellee brief to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a federal court properly ordered three companies that process state-issued child support payments to pay $7.6 million in restitution for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by charging child support recipients a 50-cent service fee for customer service phone calls, arguing it is “undisputed” that the practices at issue are unfair.
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September 01, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The people of California on Aug. 31 filed a civil enforcement action against insurers in a state court to address the insurers’ alleged “systematic, willful and widespread violations” of state consumer protection laws related to their advertising and sale of homeowners insurance policies and their handling of claims arising from the Jan. 7, 2025, Eaton and Palisades wildfires in Los Angeles County.
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September 01, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge adopted as final his tentative ruling partially staying a complaint by 357 Taylor Swift fans against online ticket seller Ticketmaster LLC, its parent company Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and stadium owner StadCo LA LLC pending the outcome of an earlier-filed suit against Live Nation for similar antitrust and California unfair competition law (UCL) claims and denied the fans’ motion to consolidate the two suits.
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September 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The terms of subscription plans clearly referred to additional per-session use of the Claude artificial intelligence and would not have misled a reasonable consumer, and the “impermissible leaps” required to conclude otherwise doom a man’s California unfair competition law claims as well, Anthropic PBC told a federal judge in California in urging dismissal of a lawsuit with prejudice.
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August 31, 2026
BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge dismissed without prejudice a consolidated class action brought by individuals whose personal information was allegedly compromised in a July 2025 cyberattack on health care technology provider Healthcare Interactive Inc., finding that the plaintiffs lacked Article III standing because, although six of the 17 named plaintiffs alleged more specific harms, none provided sufficient detail tying those harms to information the company possessed or to the breach itself, while the remaining plaintiffs relied on generalized or conclusory allegations of injury.
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August 31, 2026
ATLANTA — Cryptocurrency owners who allege that their holdings were stolen and laundered via a cryptocurrency exchange in violation of RICO and consumer protection laws in California and Massachusetts may proceed with their putative class complaint in a federal court in Florida, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, granting the owners’ petition for writ of mandamus filed after they were ordered to arbitrate their claims.
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August 27, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appellate court panel on Aug. 26 affirmed the dismissal of a homeowner’s third amended complaint accusing her insurer of failure to properly investigate a claim in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), writing that the latest appeal in the long-running case, which was remanded to the trial court after the California Supreme Court deemed the claims not time-barred, is “woefully inadequate” and violates the appellate court’s rules.
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August 26, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge partially dismissed claims brought against Otter.ai Inc. by individuals who argue that the company does not obtain prior consent of all participants in a virtual meeting before its Notetaker transcription function is engaged to record a conversation, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to sufficiently plead unauthorized computer access, and as to several plaintiffs, a reasonable expectation of privacy, but allowed claims predicated on real-time interception, third-party eavesdropping and collection of biometric voice data to proceed.
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August 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A car manufacturer urges the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition for a writ of certiorari to resolve “a 5-4-1 circuit split” over the enforceability by nonsignatories of delegation clauses in arbitration agreements, writing that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals by denying arbitration in a dispute over an alleged defect with vehicle headrests wrongly gave itself the discretion to determine if such agreements can be enforced.
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August 24, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted final approval to a settlement in a class action alleging ZOA Energy LLC violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by advertising, labeling and selling its energy drink products with the false claim that they contained “0 preservatives” but were formulated with citric and ascorbic acids and sodium and potassium citrate.
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August 19, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A group of California homeowners filed a second amended complaint (SAC) in a California state court, narrowing their claims against a collection of insurers to Cartwright Act and unfair competition law (UCL) claims alleging that the insurers conspired to restrict conventional homeowners coverage and force policyholders into the California FAIR Plan, following an order that overruled the insurers’ joint demurrer to those claims but sustained with leave to amend some defendant-specific demurrers.
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August 18, 2026
NEW YORK — The plaintiffs in a consolidated action against the operators of an AI-powered marketing and consumer data platform told a New York federal judge that they intend to seek reconsideration of a ruling that dismissed their complaint; in that ruling, the judge held that the plaintiffs lacked standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution because they failed to plausibly allege a concrete injury from the operators’ alleged collection and monetization of their email addresses, device information and browser information.
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August 18, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A cosmetic company and its commercial general liability insurer filed a stipulation in a California federal court to dismiss with prejudice the insured’s action seeking coverage for three underlying putative class action lawsuits alleging that the company deceptively sold beauty products by failing to disclose the dangerous risks and side effects of lash enhancement serums’ “key ingredient.”
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August 14, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Consumers who sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. alleging that benzoyl peroxide (BPO) acne products contained or could degrade into benzene should be allowed to proceed with most of their claims, according to findings and recommendations issued Aug. 13 by a California federal magistrate judge, although he said the named plaintiffs lack standing to sue over products they did not purchase and that a “Walgreens Pharmacist Recommended” label is nonactionable puffery.