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July 01, 2026
ST. LOUIS — In a June 30 judgment issued without substantive explanation, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition to allow an interlocutory challenge to certification of three opt-out classes and one mandatory class in a case that is part of a wave of Employee Retirement Income Security Act challenges to health plan tobacco surcharges.
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July 01, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — In a June 30 joint notice that was filed just over a week before a bench trial was scheduled to begin, parties in a long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action over severance benefits told a California federal court “that they have reached agreement on all terms of their proposed class action settlement and expect to have a fully executed Memorandum of Understanding within the next few days.”
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July 01, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey granted final approval of an $8.5 million settlement by FedEx Ground Package System Inc. to end a class complaint alleging the shipper violated New Jersey wage law by failing to pay hourly warehouse workers for actions they were required to undertake before and after their shifts.
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July 01, 2026
SAN DIEGO — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other defendants in a long-running immigration separation class case that dates back to President Donald J. Trump’s first term were ordered by a federal judge in California to release five class members and two qualifying additional family members (QAFMs) pursuant to a 2023 settlement agreement.
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June 30, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — In a June 29 order without substantive explanation, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed to allow an interlocutory appeal concerning certification of an opt-out class in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case where the initial certification of a mandatory class was vacated under the appellate court’s recent Trauernicht v. Genworth Fin. Inc. ruling.
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June 30, 2026
ST. LOUIS — Affirming dismissal of a putative class unjust enrichment suit concerning allegations that a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) violated Arkansas law, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 29 ruled in part that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts geographic coverage requirements imposed by regulations implementing the law’s network adequacy provision.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a majority opinion that outlined the extensive history of citizenship in the United States, a divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 ruled that children born to parents who are “unlawfully or temporarily present in the United States . . . are citizens at birth” under the U.S. Constitution.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump and other federal government parties preliminarily enjoined from enforcing the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) February 2026 near-total ban on gender-affirming care and ordered to reinstate the gender-affirming care provided to prisoners “immediately prior to the issuance of” a January 2025 executive order (EO) failed to show that they are entitled to a stay pending appeal, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A California attorney and class member who objected to the settlement of a lawsuit that accused The New York Times Co. of engaging in an illegal “automatic renewal” scheme petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking review of class representative payments.
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June 30, 2026
CHICAGO — The Class Action Fairness Act’s (CAFA) mass action local event or occurrence exception is jurisdictional and applies in a lawsuit over a weeklong industrial facility fire in Richmond, Ind., as “the fire is ‘an event or occurrence’ from which all claims in the action arose,” a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, addressing a question it said was one of first impression and finding that the trial court did not err by raising the question of the mass action exception sua sponte.
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June 29, 2026
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A putative class complaint alleging that the brand “Canada Dry” misleads consumers to believe that the soda is made in Canada was dismissed without leave to amend by a federal judge in New York, who ruled that the plaintiff failed to plausibly allege that an import-related or other premium for the product exists.
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June 29, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California certified two classes of noncitizens in a case brought by individuals who were arrested at a courthouse and/or detained more than 12 hours by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and vacated the ICE and Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) policies that permitted those challenged actions to occur.
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June 26, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted music-streaming service Spotify USA Inc.’s motion to dismiss a putative class action brought against it by a rapper who accused the company of negligence and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) for failing to prevent artificial streaming of artists’ music, which the plaintiff said included billions of streams by bots of music by musician Drake and allegedly reduced the revenue pool open to competing musicians such as himself.
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June 26, 2026
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower federal court’s denial of a plaintiff’s request for class certification in his lawsuit seeking to hold an insurer liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act but reversed the court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the plaintiff, holding that he failed to demonstrate that the insurer is vicariously liable for a telemarketer’s calls under any theory of agency law.
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June 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Individuals from Haiti and Syria who filed putative class complaints challenging the termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for noncitizens from their countries are not “entitled to orders postponing the terminations during litigation” as “[t]he TPS statute plainly bars consideration of the respondents’ non-constitutional claims” and the lone “constitutional claim before us will likely fail,” the U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled June 25 in two consolidated cases.
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June 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A noncitizen is not considered to have “arriv[ed] in the United States” under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) unless he or she is over the border in the United States, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 in a class case over a now-rescinded border metering policy.
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June 25, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted in part and denied in part an online pharmacy’s motion to dismiss claims under the federal Wiretap Act and denied its motion to dismiss claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in a putative class action alleging that the pharmacy configured and deployed Facebook’s pixel on its website and mobile application to facilitate the interception of users’ personal and health information by Meta Platforms Inc. without consent, refusing to dismiss either claim on the basis of consent to the extent the claim concerns the purported unlawful interception of personal health information.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A media and entertainment company argues in a June 23 respondent brief that the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ judgment that a California man is not a “‘consumer’” under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) because he subscribed only to a free newsletter, not to audiovisual goods or services from a videotape service provider and because the man’s contrary reading of the VPPA’s definition of “‘consumer’” would transform a targeted video-rental privacy statute into an internet-privacy law backed by statutory and punitive damages.
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June 24, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge denied PayPal Inc.’s motion to dismiss an amended putative class action brought against it by YouTubers and other online content creators after finding that they plausibly accuse it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by using a discount-finding browser extension, “Honey,” to redirect profits from their affiliate links and coupons to itself.
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June 24, 2026
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Just over a month after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a certiorari petition that asked it to strike down application of the “effective vindication” doctrine, the parties filed a stipulation of dismissal with prejudice in a putative class Employee Retirement Income Security Act case over use of a half-century-old mortality table to calculate joint and survivor annuities (JSAs), and a New York federal judge accordingly ordered the case closed.
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June 24, 2026
The recent Trauernicht v. Genworth Fin. Inc. opinion vacating certification of a mandatory class in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case is having an impact on a variety of ERISA cases, with the ruling cited in at least six developments ranging from an interlocutory appeal to decertification motions to extra steps in settlement proceedings.
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June 23, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — Saying in a June 22 letter that they reached an agreement regarding unspecified monetary terms in mediation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act case and “are diligently finalizing the remaining non-monetary settlement terms,” the parties asked a New Jersey federal court to temporarily stay all deadlines in the suit that involves a class of more than 50,000 individuals and had been progressing toward an October bench trial.
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June 23, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Saying, “Sometimes, even a good process produces disappointing results,” the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 22 affirmed summary judgment for retirement plan fiduciaries who were sued under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act over retention of allegedly underperforming actively managed funds, concluding that the fiduciaries “followed a sound process, collaborating with an outside investment advisor and meeting with the managers of the challenged Funds” and that “[a] fund’s poor performance alone does not mandate drastic or sudden action.”
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June 23, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal magistrate judge granted in part and denied in part a second motion to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that restaurant companies continued tracking their website users after they declined cookies, holding that the website users cured earlier pleading defects but failed to adequately plead a wiretapping claim under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and could not proceed on certain time-barred CIPA claims tied to specific plaintiffs and restaurant-brand websites.
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June 22, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon granted a joint unopposed motion to consolidate two putative class complaints by consumers who accuse Nike Inc. of unjust enrichment by passing to customers the costs for tariffs that have since been ruled unlawful.