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November 10, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 9 denied a class member’s petition seeking review of class representative payments in a settled case against The New York Times over an alleged illegal “automatic renewal” scheme.
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November 10, 2026
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A federal judge in Connecticut has issued a stay as parties reported that they have reached a settlement agreement in a putative class action alleging that Kimberly-Clark Corp. is the source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in the local groundwater supply.
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November 10, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted final approval to a $2.95 million settlement resolving consolidated class action litigation over a cannabis retailer’s alleged failure to safeguard customers’ sensitive information, including government-issued identification documents, medical cannabis cards and purchase histories, which hackers allegedly leaked on the dark web and offered for sale following a 2024 ransomware attack.
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November 10, 2026
CHICAGO — A consumer filed a putative class action against a robotics company in an Illinois state court, alleging that its sidewalk delivery robots violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by scanning customers’ facial and hand geometry without notice or consent, retaining the data without a publicly available retention and destruction policy and sharing it with third parties, including OpenAI, to train artificial intelligence models.
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November 10, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of five consolidated putative class actions brought by a retired West Virginia law enforcement officer against businesses accused of unlawfully disclosing his personal information, holding that a provision of West Virginia’s Daniel’s Law restricting the disclosure of home addresses and unpublished telephone numbers of judicial and law enforcement officials violates the First and 14th amendments because it is a content-based restriction on speech that fails strict scrutiny.
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November 09, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Without explanation for why it granted permission for an interlocutory appeal, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed to consider a challenge to certification of a mandatory class in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case concerning severance benefits.
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November 09, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal magistrate judge on Nov. 6 directed the putative class action plaintiffs suing a protein shake maker for allegedly overstating the protein content of its products by approximately 13.5% in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) to file an amended complaint and directed the defendant to file its answer so that discovery can begin after the judge in a previous ruling found most of the plaintiffs’ claims adequately pleaded and allowed the case to proceed.
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November 09, 2026
A wave of putative class action Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuits focused on the cost of voluntary benefits that kicked off in December 2025 continues to grow, with at least five new complaints filed since mid-September against defendants including Arthur J. Gallagher (Illinois) LLC, Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., Lockton Inc., Aon PLC and Macy’s Inc.
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November 09, 2026
DENVER — A 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 6 reversed a trial court’s order granting a preliminary injunction in an antitrust class action by Division I student-athletes suing over the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s refusal to apply a new fifth-year eligibility rule retroactively and vacated the injunction, opining that the trial court “clearly erred” in accepting the student-athletes’ proposed labor market definition of “all Division I athletics in the United States” as that “is not plausible.”
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November 06, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge in California gave final approval to a $69 million settlement that ends a securities fraud class action brought by investors alleging that a biopharmaceutical company and its CEO made false statements about the safety, efficacy and application for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of its proprietary vasculitis drug.
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November 05, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — Calling it “irrelevant that the injunction against defendants is permanent, rather than preliminary,” the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued an unpublished order denying dismissal for lack of jurisdiction in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action over Kinder Morgan retirement plan changes.
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November 05, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appellate panel on Nov. 4 affirmed a trial court’s ruling denying Uber Technologies Inc.’s motion to compel arbitration with two consumers who accuse Uber of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by deceptively listing prices on its app, writing that because the consumers seek public injunctive relief their claims are not arbitrable.
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November 05, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 4 docketed consumers’ appeal of a California federal magistrate judge’s order terminating their class action against a pasta maker for allegedly marketing its products in a manner that could deceive consumers into believing the pasta was made in Italy in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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November 05, 2026
SEATTLE — After the U.S. Supreme Court denied Zillow Group Inc. and its executives’ petition for a writ of certiorari regarding certification of a securities fraud class action over alleged misstatements about improvements to Zillow’s pricing model, the investor’s class counsel announced that the parties had reached a proposed $212.5 million settlement.
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November 05, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Current and former Division III college athletes have filed a putative class action lawsuit in a federal court in California seeking a permanent injunction and alleging that the National Collegiate Athletic Association has engaged in a conspiracy to fix the price of athlete labor to $0 by not allowing Division III athletes to receive athletics scholarships.
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November 05, 2026
ATLANTA — Following final approval of a $47.75 million class deal under which class members will have an average gross recovery of more than $252,000, a Nov. 4 judgment entered in Georgia federal court wrapped up a long-running suit over lump-sum payments from terminated “top hat” plans that had provided life annuities for NCR Corp. executives.
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November 04, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge denied in part McDonald’s Corp.’s motion to dismiss putative class claims brought by plaintiffs alleging that it violated the consumer deception laws of several states, including California’s unfair competition law (UCL), by using the “McRib” name to market a sandwich that does not in fact contain any rib meat but granted the motion as to the plaintiffs’ contract-based and negligent misrepresentation claims.
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November 04, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing in part that the challenged decision “will invite unnecessarily expensive litigation,” three trade organizations submitted a joint amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review an Employee Retirement Income Security Act ruling that cited the effective vindication doctrine in affirming denial of a motion to compel individual arbitration in a suit that seeks planwide relief for allegedly imprudent management of a retirement plan.
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November 04, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted final approval of a $47.75 million settlement to end a securities class action alleging that Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (HEI) and certain executives inflated the company’s stock price by misleading investors about its efforts to mitigate wild fire risk before the August 2023 Maui fires but cut the amount of requested attorney fees from 30% of the fund to 20% after finding problems with the counsel’s billing.
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November 04, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in John R. Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States was “wrong when it issued and even more clearly wrong today,” group health plans whose claims challenging exactions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Transitional Reinsurance Program (TRP) were dismissed as untimely by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) and whose dismissals were affirmed by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals request the high court in a petition for a writ of certiorari to overrule the precedent holding that the Tucker Act’s six-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional and not subject to equitable tolling.
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November 04, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — Noting that only one of the 220 class members had opted out of the settlement in the decade-old Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit over severance benefits, a California federal judge issued a final approval order under which class members will receive payments totaling more than $9,531,455 and class counsel will separately get $3.5 million for attorney fees and costs.
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November 04, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Common questions of law and fact don’t predominate over individual questions in a 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, a federal judge in California ruled, decertifying a class and subclass that had been certified in June.
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November 03, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California man who is an attorney and who separately objected to the settlement agreements reached in two separate travel insurance cases failed to show any abuse of discretion in either case, including when it came to incentive awards for the class representatives, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority ruled in two memorandums issued the same day.
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November 03, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge adopted as final his tentative ruling in which he agreed to exclude two Taylor Swift fans who are plaintiffs in a ticket sales antitrust suit against online ticket seller Ticketmaster LLC, its parent company Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and a venue owner from being considered members in an earlier-filed class action against Live Nation for similar claims but declined to exclude hundreds of other plaintiffs from membership and declined to order production of discovery from the parallel case.
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November 03, 2026
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas federal judge granted preliminary approval to an $8.75 million settlement that would resolve an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action filed over allegations that retirement and health benefit plan service providers breached their fiduciary duty to the participants in thousands of plans by, among other things, charging excessive fees.