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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.
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August 12, 2026
SEATTLE — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a trial court’s September 2025 summary judgment ruling directing the federal government treat a class of detained aliens already within the United States during their removal proceedings as detained pursuant to Section 1226 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which allows for release on bond, rather than Section 1225(b)(2)(A), which requires mandatory detention, and which the federal government began in 2022 applying to aliens on either side of the United States border.
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August 12, 2026
SEATTLE — A plaintiff filed a class action complaint in a federal court in Washington, alleging that Amazon sells and markets Orgain Organic Protein Powder on its website as “high quality, clean, and nutritious” but failed to disclose to consumers the presence or risk of heavy metals in the product.
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August 12, 2026
SEATTLE — A woman filed a putative nationwide class action complaint in a Washington federal court against a drugmaker, seeking to represent a class of consumers who purchased a generic drug used to treat high blood pressure and other heart-related disorders that was allegedly unsafe and not therapeutically equivalent to the brand name drug.
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August 12, 2026
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge granted final approval of a settlement to resolve a data privacy class action arising from a 2024 cyberattack, in which a public sector union will pay up to $2.5 million for claims, credit monitoring, settlement administration, attorney fees and service awards.
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August 11, 2026
DENVER — The “chaos” that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) says has been created by a preliminary injunction entered in a putative class action by student-athletes suing over a June 2026 new eligibility rule is self-made, a federal judge in Colorado ruled Aug. 10, denying the NCAA’s motion to stay the injunctive relief pending appeal.
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August 11, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia casino owners accused of failing to protect employees’ and customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) following a ransomware attack have been plausibly accused of negligence but haven’t been shown to be liable for the data breach, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled, largely granting the owners’ motion to dismiss the putative class complaint.
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August 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Two consumers claim in a putative class complaint against Mercedes-Benz USA LLC (MBUSA) that the company violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by failing to warn them that the “raised metallic logo” badge on the driver’s and passenger’s seats of their Mercedes vehicles can become overheated due to sunlight exposure, allegedly causing them both to experience painful burns.
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August 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Staying a plaintiff’s appeal of a lower federal court’s grant of the defendants’ motion to compel arbitration in a putative class action alleging breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals asked the Nevada Supreme Court to determine how unilateral modification provisions in consumer agreements affect the agreements’ arbitration clauses.
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August 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part two motions to dismiss putative class claims against DraftKings Inc., its subsidiary and its executives for violating state gambling laws, California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and racketeering laws, finding that while the legality of online fantasy sports betting is “murky,” the plaintiffs adequately alleged that they were deceived into losing money on DraftKings based on its representations that its games are legal but failed to properly plead racketeering claims.
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August 10, 2026
NEW YORK — An aluminum foil maker accused of falsely labeling its products as sourced and made in the United States withdrew without prejudice its motion for summary judgment one week after a New York consumer class in the case was certified by a federal judge in New York.
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August 07, 2026
PITTSBURGH — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Aug. 6 vacated a March 2026 judgment order entered in a class lawsuit over hydraulic fracturing royalties after clarifying that a summary judgment order for the defendant issued that same day as the judgment did not fully resolve all claims.
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August 07, 2026
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal magistrate judge in New York granted a motion by a contractor that facilitates online lunch payments to dismiss a class action alleging breach of contract, unjust enrichment and other claims, finding that the plaintiff’s attempt to redefine the defendant’s “transaction fees as ‘junk fees’ does not render its conduct unlawful.”
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August 07, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a lower court’s decision to certify a class of investors in their suit against The Boeing Co. and its former officials over alleged misstatements about the company’s emphasis on safety that artificially inflated the company’s stock price, finding that the investors did not provide a damages methodology tied to their theory of liability, as required by Comcast Corp. v. Behrend.
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August 07, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey denied a motion to dismiss investors’ putative class complaint alleging that three real estate investment trusts (REITs) and their external advisers and directors misled shareholders through proxy statements that omitted material information about charter amendments delaying liquidation and benefiting the REITs’ controlling executive, finding the omissions to be material.
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August 07, 2026
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada federal judge granted final approval of a $3.3 million settlement resolving data breach claims against a dental care provider one day after allowing negligence and unjust enrichment claims to proceed against the dental care provider’s management services provider.
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August 07, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in the District of Columbia denied a motion by federal workers to reconsider dismissal of a putative class lawsuit that alleged that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) failed to conduct and publish a privacy impact assessment (PIA) before purportedly sending out “test” emails the workers claimed were being used to collect information on them, opining that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(2) doesn’t “permit do-overs” for newly discovered evidence when that evidence could have been discovered “with a modicum of diligence and where that ‘evidence’ is, in any event, cumulative, duplicative, or of only marginal relevance.”
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August 07, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Investors in two related cases filed notices of appeal after a federal judge in California dismissed their claims that Meta Platforms Inc. facilitated pump-and-dump investment schemes advertised on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, ruling in a single order that the claims were barred by the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA).
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August 06, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 5 vacated a federal judge’s decision granting an insured’s motion to remand her putative class action against an insurer for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) based on its alleged termination of her late husband’s life insurance policy, writing that in light of recent precedent the judge should have given the insurer an “opportunity to waive” its adequate-remedy-at-law defense before remanding due to lack of equitable jurisdiction.