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October 02, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal magistrate judge granted in part a pasta maker’s motion to strike a plaintiffs’ expert witness evidence indicating consumer deception as “biased,” granted the company’s motion for summary judgment on claims accusing it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by allegedly deceiving consumers into believing its pasta was made in Italy and denied as moot a defense motion to decertify the plaintiffs’ statewide class.
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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted Microsoft Corp.’s motion to dismiss federal antitrust claims brought by ChatGPT Plus subscribers who allege that Microsoft entered an agreement with OpenAI to provide it computational processing power (compute) that allegedly increased prices and worsened quality in the Consumer Generative AI (CGAI) market, denied Microsoft’s motion to compel arbitration and declined to dismiss the plaintiffs’ state law claims including for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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October 01, 2026
Customers affected by oil prices filed two separate putative class complaints, one in New York federal court and one in Delaware federal court, accusing shale oil producers of violating antitrust laws and conspiring since 2021 to fix gas prices by allegedly coordinating “production decisions” and slowing production of shale oil from hydraulic fracturing to rates “that are lower than would be seen in a competitive market, despite high oil prices and healthy global demand.”
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September 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment against a pro se litigant and in favor of the bank and loan servicer that he accused of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by seeking collection of a “balloon payment loan” allegedly without adequate notice, writing that the litigant did not plausibly allege entitlement to any relief.
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September 30, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on Sept. 29 granted a fruit snack maker’s motion to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit against it for allegedly violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by labeling its gummy snacks as “Made with Real Fruit Juice,” finding that the product does contain pear concentrate and that a reasonable consumer would not be deceived by the label, and denied the plaintiff leave to amend.
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September 30, 2026
SHERMAN, Texas — Novo Nordisk Inc. is seeking a permanent injunction barring a compounding pharmacy from selling certain compounded semaglutide products, alleging in an amended complaint filed in a Texas federal court that the pharmacy gains an unfair competitive advantage by selling drugs that have not received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
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September 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A legal advocacy group filed suit Sept. 29 in a California court under the state’s unfair competition law seeking to enjoin OpenAI entities’ artificial intelligence models from accessing computers, networks or systems without authorization in the wake of allegations that the company’s AI agents hacked third-party websites.
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September 30, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on Sept. 29 granted a woman’s motion to certify a statewide class bringing claims against a tampon manufacturer for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by allegedly misrepresenting its tampons as safe when they in fact contained lead in its tampons and granted in part and denied in part a defense motion to exclude the plaintiff’s expert witness.
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September 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court did not err when it denied a retailer’s request to compel members of a certified consumer class to arbitrate their claims in a case over bedding thread counts, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, finding that the retailer failed to provide proof that any individual class member accessed the exact webpages that appeared in screenshots provided by the retailer.
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September 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nestle USA Inc. filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking U.S. Supreme Court justices to consider three questions concerning damages and injunctive relief classes in a case by consumers who allege that the company’s cocoa labeling is misleading.
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September 25, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A woman seeking to represent nationwide and California classes of purchasers on Sept. 24 amended her complaint against Veracity Wellness Inc. that alleges that the company deceptively markets its Metabolism Ignite dietary supplement as “Nature’s Ozempic” and as a natural alternative to prescription weight-loss drugs, asserting claims for violation of California’s unfair competition law and other laws.
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September 24, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied two attorneys’ petition for a writ of mandamus challenging a judge’s sanction ordering them to pay Walmart Inc. more than $623,000 in attorney fees it incurred litigating a consumer’s class action suit regarding the labeling of its avocado oil, writing that the dispute does not warrant an order of mandamus and that the attorneys can appeal the sanctions order after the litigation concludes.
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September 23, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A diagnostic lab filed an amended complaint in California federal court, alleging that health care plans and their administrators failed to pay and process claims for diagnostic tests for COVID-19 provided by the lab to individuals with benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) or with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.
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September 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New York Times and the class representative in a settled case over an alleged illegal “automatic renewal” scheme filed separate opposition briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a class member’s petition seeking review of class representative payments.
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September 22, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge determined that breach of contract and bad faith claims alleged against the parent company of an insurer can proceed in a wildfire coverage damage suit because the insureds alleged sufficient facts to show that the insurer and its parent company share a unity of interest and ownership.
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September 21, 2026
CINCINNATI — An Ohio federal judge on Sept. 18 granted final approval to a class action settlement under which one of the largest vision benefits companies in the U.S. agreed to establish a $5 million nonreversionary common fund after a company email account was breached in 2020 and hackers were able to obtain current and former clients’ protected health information (PHI) and personally identifying information (PII).
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September 16, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Ford Motor Co. filed a brief in California federal court opposing a law firm’s motion to dismiss and strike Ford’s complaint accusing the firm of violating the state’s unfair competition law (UCL) by allegedly fraudulently billing Ford for more than $25 million in allegedly “fabricated” attorney fees accumulated through multiple lawsuits brought against it under California’s Lemon Law, which the firm says is an impermissible “retaliatory” suit.
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September 14, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals certified two questions to the California Supreme Court concerning rates for lower-ranking military service members who allege in a class lawsuit that they were improperly denied the same rates provided to higher-ranking officers pursuant to the California Insurance Code.
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September 14, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on Sept. 11 granted a fertilizer company’s motion to dismiss a class action brought against it by two plaintiffs who claim that it violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by marketing its fertilizer product as “organic” when it allegedly contains so-called forever chemicals but granted the plaintiffs leave to amend.
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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
SAN JOSE, Calif. — 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.