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June 11, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania borough will change its business practices and pay $1,250,000 to end class claims that it towed, impounded and disposed of vehicles without providing owners with basic due process protections of notice and a hearing, after a federal judge in that state granted final settlement approval.
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June 11, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — A split Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel for a second time reversed dismissal of a class complaint brought by West Virginia foster children, opining that federal courts have “a duty . . . to remedy systemic constitutional rights violations.”
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June 11, 2026
MIAMI — After being advised that the parties have reached a settlement, a Florida federal judge ordered the parties to file a joint stipulation of dismissal by July 1 in a putative class suit accusing a company that sells automotive care products of violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and similar Florida law by sending out unsolicited telemarketing messages.
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June 11, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Four consumers filed a putative class action against a nutritional supplement company alleging that Nature Made-brand “turmeric curcumin” capsules are deceptively marketed in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws and do not provide the benefits that are claimed on the product’s label.
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June 10, 2026
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — An Indiana federal judge denied University of Notre Dame Du Lac’s motion to dismiss a former student’s putative class action breach of contract and unjust enrichment suit arising from the university’s spring 2020 COVID-19 transition to remote education and refusal to issue tuition or fee refunds, finding that the former student sufficiently alleged a plausible contract for in-person education to survive the motion.
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June 10, 2026
SAN DIEGO — An annuitant filed a putative class action suit in California federal court claiming that an investment adviser profited from “risky” insurance and annuity products issued by The Phoenix Companies Inc., now known as PHL Variable Insurance Co., which is in rehabilitation, alleging that the adviser knew of the financial risk posed by the insurer but “chose to keep silent so it could hide its breaches of trust and failure to disclose while quietly pocketing and improperly retaining millions of dollars in upfront and trailer commissions, to the detriment of Plaintiff and Class Members.”
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June 09, 2026
LOS ANGELES — After more than a decade of litigation, a California state court judge granted final approval to a statewide class action settlement resolving claims that Tinder Inc., which owns and operates a popular dating app, violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act and unfair competition law (UCL) by overcharging older users of its app for premium services, for which Tinder agreed to pay $60.5 million including more than $20.1 million in attorney fees.
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June 09, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted two motions by the parents of minors who brought class claims against Roblox Corp. and certain third-party developers for letting minors access gambling games that accepted Roblox’s in-game currency, Robux, to settle their claims against the developers “in exchange for information rather than monetary recovery” about how the gambling games functioned.
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June 08, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge awarded class counsel $2.2 million in attorney fees plus more than $23,000 in expenses after previously granting final approval to an $8.9 million settlement of the plaintiffs’ class action against the manufacturer of a soda product for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by deceptively labeling its soda as “Prebiotic” and “gut healthy,” awarding slightly less in attorney fees than was sought and reducing the named plaintiffs’ service awards.
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June 08, 2026
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Quinnipiac University (QU) violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 when it abruptly eliminated its Division I women’s rugby team at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year despite previously expanding women’s varsity rugby and relying upon the program when defending itself against earlier Title IX claims, student-athletes allege in a June 5 class complaint filed against the school in a federal court in Connecticut.
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June 08, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — Rejecting the defendants’ arguments regarding the impact of a nine-factor test the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals instituted concerning releases in Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases, a California federal judge on June 4 issued separate orders denying motions to decertify the class and reopen discovery and then on June 5 amended the latter order to clarify that a bench trial in the long-running case over severance benefits is scheduled to start July 9.
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June 08, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California certified a class and subclass in a printing company’s lawsuit accusing Ricoh USA Inc. of breach of contract, unfair competition and other violations in connection with yearly price increases that allegedly exceed the contractual percentage permitted.
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June 05, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Denying en banc rehearing in a case where it reversed and vacated certification of a mandatory class, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 4 let its ruling stand in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act case challenging the employer’s decision to include passively managed BlackRock LifePath Index target date funds (TDFs) in its defined-contribution retirement plan.
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June 05, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — An employee who settled individual wage-and-hour claims following decertification of a collective action and two classes lacks standing to appeal that decertification decision, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
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June 05, 2026
SEATTLE — A case that is part of a wave of putative class actions challenging a common use of forfeited nonvested matching retirement contributions would settle for an estimated $42,724,532 under a deal to which a Washington federal judge granted preliminary approval on June 4 after a hearing.
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June 05, 2026
BOSTON — Following a 12-day bench trial in a class action concerning the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)of a family business that manufactures electrical equipment, a Massachusetts federal judge issued a mixed ruling and ordered supplemental briefing concerning “the exact calculation of damages” on bonuses, which was the issue on which the plaintiffs partially prevailed.
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June 04, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. (RJR) appeared in North Carolina federal court and filed a waiver of service in a putative class action alleging that it is violating federal law by sending “telephone solicitations” in the form of unwanted marketing text messages to consumers whose phone numbers are allegedly listed on the national Do Not Call registry.
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June 04, 2026
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A New York federal magistrate judge denied a motion to exclude expert testimony filed by a class of inmates in New York prisons who allege that they were denied proper medical treatment and ruled that a urologist retained by the state can opine about catheter use and urinary tract infections (UTIs) as an expert witness.
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June 04, 2026
NEW YORK — In the wake of recent appellate rulings that revived three separate Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases similar to theirs, retirees who sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and related defendants over the use of allegedly outdated mortality tables in calculating qualified joint and survivor annuity (QJSA) benefits moved in New York federal court for preliminary approval of a class settlement they say has a present value of $23 million.
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June 04, 2026
CHICAGO — After new lead class counsel was proposed, a federal judge in Illinois granted certification of a class of undergraduate students who received need-based financial aid from certain colleges and universities accused of “participating in a price-fixing cartel that is designed to reduce or eliminate financial aid as a locus of competition.”
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June 04, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge in California granted final approval to an $85 million settlement in a class action brought by investors against Wells Fargo & Company and certain of its executives alleging that news of the company’s practice of using fake interviews to give the impression of complying with internal diversity hiring practices led to a drop in the company’s stock value.
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June 04, 2026
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A federal judge in Tennessee granted an unopposed joint motion to consolidate 13 putative class lawsuits seeking restitution and damages for money paid to FedEx Corp, Federal Express Corp. and FedEx Logistics Inc. (together, FedEx) for shipments subjected to tariffs imposed via presidential executive orders that have since been ruled unlawful.
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June 03, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted final approval of a $1.2 million class action settlement and $5,000 service awards to both named plaintiffs in litigation alleging that a website operator violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by using third-party trackers on a video game website to collect users’ IP addresses and other identifiers without consent, rendering the trackers unauthorized “‘pen registers’” under the statute.
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June 03, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — In a corrected per curiam opinion, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed one of two preliminary injunctions issued by a federal court in California in a case brought by university researchers after three federal agencies terminated University of California (UC) research grants pursuant to President Donald J. Trump’s executive orders (EOs).
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June 03, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS — A firefighters’ union properly raised after final judgment a trial court’s failure to provide class notice in a lawsuit alleging insufficient time off as “[t]he Firefighters could not have anticipated that the trial court would proceed to final judgment prior to following the procedure for class actions, taking evidence or swearing in witnesses,” an Indiana Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished opinion.