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July 23, 2026
NEW YORK — Making the same key arguments it did in January in a similar interlocutory appeal, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a ruling that retirees had standing to file a putative class lawsuit that is part of a much-watched string of pension risk transfer (PRT) challenges; among other things, the retirees generally allege that the use of offshore captive reinsurers makes the insurers now responsible for paying their annuities more likely to fall short of their obligations.
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July 23, 2026
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois granted a motion by the owner and operator of a casino and sweepstakes gaming website to compel a plaintiff seeking to represent a class of Illinois website customers to arbitrate individually her claims regarding the alleged operation of an illegal online casino the under the company’s “Terms of Use” for its website’s “social casino.”
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July 23, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on July 22 granted an oil-well interest class an extra month to respond to a petition by Sunoco Inc. and Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. (together, Sunoco) that asks the high court to decide whether a court is permitted under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 or Article III of the U.S. Constitution to certify a class and award damages in a case where ascertainability has never been satisfied.
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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 23, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ruling that users of three Google LLC services failed to show an injury arising from an allegation that the company activated its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) bot without their knowledge or consent, a California federal judge dismissed their amended class action complaint with leave to amend.
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July 22, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 21 vacated the certification of a class of third-party payers (TPPs) who paid for prescriptions for Avandia after finding that the statistical evidence presented in the district court to prove that alleged fraud by GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) caused them to pay more for diabetes drug showed proof of correlation but failed to meet the appropriate causation standard.
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July 22, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — In an insured’s dispute with his lender over its alleged failure to endorse settlement checks as an additional payee in a hurricane coverage dispute involving a now-insolvent insurer, the insured on July 21 filed a brief in Louisiana federal court opposing the lender’s renewed motion to dismiss and request for reconsideration of a previous ruling in a putative class suit, asserting that the lender incorrectly maintains that the insured did not incur an injury.
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July 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied a motion by the U.S. Department of Education to modify a loan discharge settlement agreement that was granted final approval in 2022 and did not err when it allowed a postclass applicant group to receive relief under the agreement, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled.
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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
OAKLAND, Calif. — Saying they would receive more than $9,531,455 and class counsel would separately get $3.5 million, a 220-member class of former Atmel Corp. employees asked a California federal court for preliminary approval of a settlement that would resolve their nearly decade-old Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit over severance benefits.
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July 21, 2026
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri gun owner lacks standing to sue over a pistol’s alleged defective features that can cause it to be inadvertently discharged because he admitted he has never experienced that or any other issues, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, vacating a trial court’s class certification order and remanding with instructions to dismiss the case.
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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 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite objections, a California federal judge granted final approval in consolidated litigation to a $47.5 million class action settlement between eight named plaintiffs and a health plan that resolves claims brought after the health plan was accused of installing third-party trackers on its website and mobile apps to capture user information.
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July 20, 2026
CHICAGO — Affirming judgment against a class of employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) participants who challenged a $265 million deal, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 17 explained that it found no clear error in the ruling that followed a 14-day bench trial.
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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 17, 2026
NEW YORK — Racial discrimination claims against three teams and the National Football League (NFL) brought in a putative class complaint by three current and former NFL coaches must proceed in court, a federal judge in New York ruled, denying reconsideration of a February ruling that denied in full arbitration based on “[t]he NFL’s unilateral control over the dispute resolution process.”
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July 17, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Residents filed a putative class action complaint in Pennsylvania state court alleging that an energy company and its affiliate contaminated local groundwater with toxins when a storage tank they operate leaked gasoline and petroleum products into the environment and that the defendants concealed information about the leak from regulators and the public.
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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
PIERRE, S.D. — Owners of homes built on top of an inactive gypsum mine that was at one time owned by a subdivision of South Dakota failed in a putative class complaint to bring a viable claim for inverse condemnation against the state following the formation of a large sinkhole because the property was not private at the time of the mining and homeowners failed to show “that the State’s retention of the mining rights to the property is a ‘public use’ under the damaging clause of the South Dakota Constitution,” the state’s highest court ruled.
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July 16, 2026
DENVER — A June 2026 infiltration of Frontier Airlines Inc.’s information network that resulted in the theft of employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) was the result of the airline’s failure “to take available steps to prevent an unauthorized disclosure of data,” according to several class complaints filed between July 13 and July 15 in a federal court in Colorado.
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July 16, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge denied a motion to modify a September 2025 order that certified several customer-specific and statutory subclasses for nominal damages but declined to certify claims for other damages, ruling that the plaintiffs’ new expert report did not justify modification and that the plaintiffs could not add damages for identity protection services for members whose Social Security numbers were exposed.
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July 15, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals lacks jurisdiction over an appeal of a preemption ruling in a case challenging the location of a helipad at a New Orleans hospital that was filed originally as a class action because an injunction was effectively refused and interlocutory jurisdiction only exists where the appealing party satisfies the factors in Carson v. Am. Brands, Inc., the appellate panel ruled.