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August 26, 2026
CINCINNATI — In a ruling issued after an order granting reconsideration in part, a federal judge in Ohio approved the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 portion of a $1.18 million settlement reached between a class of pizza delivery drivers and their employer over vehicle expense reimbursements while adhering to an earlier conclusion that the court lacked jurisdiction to approve a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) component of the same agreement.
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August 26, 2026
ST. LOUIS — Nationwide settlements that include payments of more than $1 billion and changes to buyer-broker compensation to resolve allegations that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and real estate franchises conspired to artificially inflate residential real estate commission costs were affirmed by the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which concluded in an opinion addressing seven consolidated appeals that the trial court reasonably determined that the settlements were fair and did not violate antitrust law.
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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 26, 2026
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri state judge granted final approval to a $2,525,000 settlement between a healthcare provider and a class of individuals whose personally identifying information and health data were disclosed when the provider fell victim to a 2025 cyberattack.
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August 26, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge denied as moot OpenAI Global LLC’s motion to dismiss a class action complaint after a user of ChatGPT filed an amended complaint in which she alleges that OpenAI improperly disclosed ChatGPT users’ conversation information to third parties without obtaining user consent.
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August 25, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has stayed issuance of its mandate for a July 30 ruling in a putative class case pending resolution of a certiorari petition that the appellants say they have already filed. In the petition, the appellants argue that the panel ruling deepens a 7-1 circuit split concerning the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, with the Fourth Circuit’s recent Trauernicht v. Genworth Fin. Inc. ruling standing alone on one side of the conflict.
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August 25, 2026
DENVER — A divided 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel granted the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) motion to stay pending appeal a trial court’s preliminary injunction in a putative class action by student-athletes suing over a June 2026 new eligibility rule.
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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 20, 2026
ATLANTA — After considering two questions certified from a federal court in Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court determined that exposure to a toxic substance without a present physical injury does not foreclose equitable relief, which instead turns on whether the plaintiff suffered any “legally cognizable injury” and the absence of an adequate remedy at law; however, the state high court did not rule on how this principle applied to the underlying conflict involving a toxic plume released from a chemical plant.
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August 20, 2026
ATLANTA — Saying in part that “some of the most objectively imprudent investments will lack an apples-to-apples comparison precisely because they are such objectively bad fiduciary decisions,” the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals revived an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action focused on target-date funds (TDFs) that are proprietary to the investment manager of the retirement plan at issue.
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August 19, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Following a hearing, a California judge granted final approval of a $7.4 million class settlement to resolve a long-running suit alleging that Trader Joe’s Co. violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) by printing out receipts that revealed 10 digits of its customers’ debit and credit card numbers.
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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 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 17 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. government’s motion for leave to participate in oral argument and for divided argument in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case that the court is scheduled to hear Oct. 6; the government is among the amici curiae urging affirmance that a putative class suit challenging purportedly underperforming retirement plan investments in hedge funds and private equity was correctly dismissed for failure to allege a “meaningful benchmark.”
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August 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — United Airlines Inc. filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to consider Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23’s commonality and predominance requirements in a class case by workers who accuse the airline of discrimination by failing to provide religious and medical accommodations from the COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
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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.
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August 14, 2026
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Partly granting a request to compel production of insurance-related documents in a class action that concerns the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), an Illinois federal judge ruled after in camera review that some of the documents “are not subject to any privilege” and must be produced but others “need not be produced” because they are not relevant.
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August 13, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — One of several agricultural companies accused of contributing to the contamination of groundwater in the Lower Umatilla Basin in alleged violation of state law and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) has reached a $6.2 million settlement in a class action with a group of nearby residents that awaits approval by an Oregon federal judge.
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August 13, 2026
SEATTLE — In a response to a recently filed second amended putative class complaint brought by customers who contend that Amazon.com Inc. is liable for damages and fraudulent concealment in relation to rice that they bought that contained arsenic and other heavy metals, Amazon expressly denied the allegations and argued that it had no duty to disclose the presence of heavy metals in its rice products.
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August 13, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge granted final approval to a $325,000 cash settlement to resolve seven claims brought on behalf of a nationwide class by an individual victim of a data breach through which thousands of individuals’ personally identifying information (PII) held by a financial services firm was disclosed.
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August 13, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A more than decade-long class case against Grubhub Inc. and Grubhub Holdings Inc. (together, Grubhub) by drivers who alleged that they were unlawfully classified as independent contractors was settled for $24.75 million, according to an order by a federal judge in California granting final settlement approval and partially granting a motion for attorney fees and costs.
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August 13, 2026
CHICAGO — Homebuyers who sued a real estate broker trade association and three real estate franchisors for allegedly conspiring over commission rates have reached class settlements with two of the franchisors for a total of $28.5 million, according to orders of settlement filed in a federal court in Illinois.
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August 12, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge in California on Aug. 11 sent to arbitration damages claims under the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) and false advertising law (FAL) that remained following a summary judgment ruling in a putative class action brought by consumers seeking injunctive relief or restitution related to StubHub Inc.’s refund policy changes implemented for events canceled or rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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August 12, 2026
BALTIMORE — A woman who received compensation through Purdue Pharma LP's nationwide opioid settlement filed a putative class action in a Maryland federal court accusing the law firm that represented her of improperly withholding excessive amounts for medical liens in violation of the settlement agreement.
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August 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor will rescind its May 2025 “phased pause in contractor-operated Job Corps centers nationwide” and all termination notices and will pay $50,000 for the attorney fees of Job Corps center students who filed a putative class complaint challenging the closures, according to a stipulation and order of settlement and dismissal signed by a federal judge in the District of Columbia on Aug. 11.