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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procedure for class actions, taking evidence or swearing in witnesses,” an Indiana Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished opinion.
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June 03, 2026
CHICAGO — More than four years after an attorney fees motion was filed in an antitrust case accusing broiler sellers of fixing the prices for chicken and following two appeals to the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a federal judge in Illinois awarded the end user consumer plaintiff (EUCP) class attorney fees of 26.6% of the net common fund resulting from settlements with sellers and awarded money to the two settlement objectors.
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June 02, 2026
EUGENE, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon denied certification of five classes of female student-athletes in a suit under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 against the University of Oregon (UO), finding that the plaintiffs failed to show “that they are typical representatives of their classes”; however, the judge noted that certification of a limited financial aid injunctive class will be considered in the future if the plaintiffs are successful on the merits of their claim for injunctive relief.
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June 02, 2026
BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge on June 1 gave preliminary approval to a class settlement that would resolve a suit former NFL players filed over the use of “race-based demographic adjustments” in “scoring neuropsychological tests” used to determine whether they receive disability and related benefits; the parties said the deal is designed to ensure that such “adjustments play no role in the Plans’ benefit determinations, whether prospectively or retroactively.”
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June 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 1 denied certiorari regarding a ruling that affirmed summary judgment for the U.S. government in a suit in which a certified class of retirees tried to get federal compensation for cuts made to their vested pension benefits; in the ruling at issue, an appellate court concluded that the government prevailed because the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) “was not a physical taking and plaintiffs did not prove it was a regulatory taking.”
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June 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPMDL) has transferred to the MDL court for Roundup product liability litigation a putative class action that would establish a preliminarily approved nationwide Roundup settlement of up to $7.25 billion after a group of objectors who refer to themselves as the “objector defendants” removed the lawsuit to Missouri federal court and sought its transfer, arguing that the proposed settlement “extinguishes” the claims of current and future plaintiffs.
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June 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An individual whose personal data was allegedly accessed in a cyberattack filed a proposed class complaint in a District of Columbia federal court against a law firm, asserting that the firm failed to adequately safeguard sensitive information allegedly obtained from third parties and delayed notice for months after discovering unauthorized access to its systems.
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June 01, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California granted final approval to a $250 million settlement in a class action brought by investors alleging that an electric car manufacturer and certain of its executives hid the fact that they knew that the company would be selling its vehicles at a significant loss ahead of its initial public offering.
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on May 28 entered final judgment in favor of a certified class of consumers of Cake-brand vape products containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) against two nonappearing companies for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by mislabeling the THC content of their vapes. The judge ordered the companies to correct their labels and awarded class counsel approximately $850,000 in attorney fees and costs.
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May 29, 2026
ST. LOUIS — Removal to federal court of a Missouri state court putative class action where a $7.25 billion nationwide Roundup settlement has been preliminarily approved can’t be done by objectors to the settlement, consumers who filed the lawsuit and Monsanto Co. argue in separate motions to remand filed in the federal court; Monsanto is seeking expedited consideration of its motion.
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge largely granted motions to dismiss putative class claims brought by OnlyFans subscribers who say that they were deceived into paying extra fees to “chat” and share personal information with individual creators in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws, when they in fact were talking with professional third-party “chatters,” dismissing most claims against the companies that operate the site but allowing a claim against the agencies that manage creators and chatters for sharing personal information.
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge denied the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Turner Sports Interactive Inc.’s motion to stay a proposed class action alleging that third-party trackers on NCAA.com violated the pen register provision of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) pending an appeal in an analogous website-tracking case, finding that the appeal did not justify delaying the litigation because its potential effect on the plaintiffs’ Article III standing theory was uncertain, resolution could take years and a stay could postpone relief for absent putative class members.
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May 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a joint motion to dismiss a petition for a writ of certiorari in putative class action litigation arising from an insurer’s data breach in which hackers gained access to nearly 3 million driver’s license numbers after the parties reached a settlement resolving the underlying dispute, leaving in place a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that two named plaintiffs had Article III standing to seek damages based on the dark web posting of their driver’s license numbers.
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May 28, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A payday lender will pay $5.2 million and for two years refrain from assessing transfer fees on direct transfers of advances to active-duty service members and eligible dependents to end class claims that it engaged in predatory lending practices in violation of the Military Lending Act (MLA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and the Georgia Payday Loan Act (GPLA), pursuant to a settlement agreement granted final approval by a federal judge in California.
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May 27, 2026
ST. LOUIS — Individuals who object to the proposed $7.25 billion nationwide Roundup settlement between a putative class and Bayer Corp., Monsanto Co.’s parent company, removed the putative class action to Missouri federal court, arguing that the proposed agreement “extinguishes” the claims of current and future plaintiffs “in exchange for pennies on the dollar.” The objectors also moved to stay all proceedings pending a ruling on their motion to transfer the case to the multidistrict litigation for Roundup litigation.
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May 27, 2026
ATLANTA — Reviving a putative class action and agreeing with a recent ruling that made a sister circuit “the only other federal court of appeals to have decided the issue,” an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 26 concluded that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act requires pension plans to “convert married participants’ single-life annuities to joint-and-survivor annuities using reasonable mortality and interest-rate assumptions.”
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May 27, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As it has several times in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a certiorari petition that asked it to strike down application of the “effective vindication” doctrine in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case; the dispute concerned use of a half-century-old mortality table to calculate joint and survivor annuities (JSAs), and the decision at issue came from the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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May 27, 2026
BOSTON — The trustees of Boston University sued its educators legal liability insurer for breach of contract and declaratory judgment in a Massachusetts court, seeking coverage for the $1.76 million in costs that the university incurred by defending against underlying class action lawsuits alleging that it breached its promise of in-person instruction and services when it transitioned to online learning in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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May 27, 2026
CINCINNATI — After requesting responses to petitions for panel and en banc rehearing regarding a split ruling that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act “prohibits employers from using unreasonable, inappropriate actuarial assumptions” when making certain pension annuity calculations, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied the petitions with only a procedural explanation, letting stand the revival of two putative class suits contesting the use of decades-old mortality tables.
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May 27, 2026
SEATTLE — The owner and operator of several Potbelly Sandwich Shop restaurants filed a notice indicating that it is appealing a Washington federal court’s grant of an employment practices liability insurer’s motion to dismiss its breach of contract lawsuit seeking coverage for an underlying putative class alleging that it violated the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act.
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May 26, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 26 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari posing a church autonomy question in a putative class case accusing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of fraud related to Peter’s Pence Collection; the order list noted that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who oversaw the case in the trial court, took no part in the consideration or decision of the petition.
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May 26, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided U.S. Supreme Court on May 26 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the National Football League and three teams concerning the enforceability of arbitration agreements that designate the NFL commissioner as the default arbitrator and allow the commissioner to develop the arbitral procedures after the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s partial denial of the arbitration motion.