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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.
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August 06, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge who had resolved competing summary judgment motions in a long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action by ruling that trial was required for some issues has now ordered trial on a different mix of issues after granting a reconsideration motion focused on disclosure obligations concerning brokerage windows.
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August 06, 2026
ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida denied a new motion filed by the co-founder of a cryptocurrency foundation company seeking reconsideration of a ruling granting partial summary judgment to investors who sued the co-founder and the company over allegations that they sold the cryptocurrency without filing a registration statement, finding that a joint interpretation regarding the application of federal securities laws to certain types of crypto assets issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission does not constitute an intervening change in law that would call for reconsideration of the order.
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August 05, 2026
PITTSBURGH — A federal magistrate judge in Pennsylvania excluded five individuals and a sewer authority from a certified class in a long-running royalty dispute between landowners and a hydraulic fracturing company based on the parties’ agreement reached after the fracking company moved to compel arbitration.
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August 05, 2026
DENVER — The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and college athletes who filed a putative class complaint over the June 2026 new eligibility rule filed competing emergency motions in a federal court in Colorado after a preliminary injunction was entered and the NCAA filed a notice of appeal; the NCAA seeks to stay the preliminary injunction while the athletes on Aug. 4 moved to enforce the preliminary injunction (Brock Wisne, et al. v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, No. 26-3063, D. Colo.).
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August 05, 2026
CHICAGO — Finding that no decision in the Wisconsin Supreme Court has addressed whether a plaintiff, “lured by false price comparison advertising into purchasing a product that is worth the purchase price, suffers a pecuniary loss,” a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel certified a woman’s putative class claims against Kohl’s Corp. and a related entity to the state high court and stayed her appeal of a Wisconsin federal judge’s decision to dismiss her complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
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August 04, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — The plaintiffs in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action that is now centered on allegations of self-dealing and prohibited transactions have asked a New Jersey federal court to grant preliminary approval of a settlement with ADP TotalSource Group Inc. and related parties that would include a $48 million common fund and nonmonetary relief.