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April 30, 2026
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Health policies in Maryland, with the exception of policies issued to small employers, must “cover expenses arising from IVF [in vitro fertilization] procedures to the same extent as expenses arising from other pregnancy-related procedures,” a divided Maryland Supreme Court ruled, affirming an appellate panel’s reinstatement of putative class claims by insureds seeking coverage for embryo thawing and agreeing that a class case can’t be mooted by reimbursing the insureds after the complaint was filed and before class certification was sought.
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April 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — No judicial review of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate the temporary protected status (TPS) for Syria and Haiti is permitted under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the U.S. solicitor general told the U.S. Supreme Court April 29 during oral arguments in two putative class cases consolidated by the high court after it treated the government’s applications to stay orders postponing the TPS terminations as petitions for writ of certiorari before judgment and granted them.
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April 30, 2026
FLINT, Mich. — A Michigan state court judge granted final approval to a $14 million class action settlement resolving consolidated federal and state litigation alleging that McLaren Health Care Corp. failed to protect patients’ personally identifiable and protected health information in two ransomware-related data breaches in 2023 and 2024, awarding class counsel $4.67 million in attorney fees and approving service awards of $1,500 for each of the 11 named plaintiffs.
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April 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 28 affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing a putative class action suit against Meta Platforms Inc. alleging that anti-Rohingya content on Facebook incited violence against the plaintiffs and their villages in Myanmar and that Meta breached its duty of care to avoid injury to others, finding that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act barred the plaintiffs’ claims because the content at issue was third-party content.
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April 29, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted Bayer Healthcare LLC’s request for an extension to file a petition for rehearing following a split panel’s memorandum in which the majority upheld certification of California and New York classes alleging mislabeling of the company’s One A Day (OAD) Natural Fruit Bites Multivitamin products.
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April 29, 2026
SHERMAN, Texas — A Texas federal judge granted final approval to a settlement of a data breach class action suit brought against a mortgage and property services company for a breach of its data in 2023 by cybercriminals who gained access to personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to nearly 3,000 current and former employees and customers, plus more than $137,000 in attorney fees and costs.
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April 29, 2026
CARTHAGE, N.C. — A North Carolina state court judge granted final approval of a class action settlement in a data breach suit alleging that a radiology practice failed to safeguard patients’ personally identifiable information, which led to the data breach impacting more than 8,000 class members, finding “fair, reasonable, and adequate” the terms of the claims-made settlement which provides, among other things, that the practice pay $100,000 in attorney fees and expenses to class counsel.
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April 29, 2026
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge in Virginia granted final approval of a $425 million class settlement, ending a multidistrict litigation in which consumers accused Capital One N.A. and Capital One Financial Corp. (together, Capital One) of failing to inform them when their type of savings account was replaced with a new, higher interest account yet their money remained in the former accounts and earned a lower percentage of interest.
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April 29, 2026
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A California federal judge dismissed a putative class action suit against Paramount Skydance Corp. and Pluto Inc. alleging that they unlawfully collected and disclosed minors’ personally identifiable information to third parties, including Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Microsoft Corp., in violation of federal and state privacy laws, finding that the parents who sued on behalf of their minor children failed to establish standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
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April 28, 2026
NEW YORK — Issuing a brief summary order upholding denial of a motion for accounting or postjudgment discovery in a partially successful class action over a 1998 conversion that turned a traditional defined-benefit pension plan to a cash-balance plan, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals called the challenged decisions “careful and thorough” and said it affirmed them based on “substantially the reasons” the lower court cited.
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April 28, 2026
CINCINNATI — Following rehearing en banc, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals majority reversed a district court’s class certification order in an insured’s breach of contract and bad faith suit after determining that the insured cannot pursue claims on a classwide basis against an auto insurer for allegedly undervaluing insured vehicles deemed a total loss by the insurer because individual questions exist regarding the value of each class member’s auto damaged in an auto accident.
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April 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A January 2025 proclamation issued by President Donald J. Trump on the day of his inauguration that limited asylum and withholding of removal applications and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) guidance that followed are “unlawful to the extent that they circumvent the INA’s [Immigration and Nationality Act] removal procedures and cast aside federal laws affording individuals the right to apply and be considered for asylum or withholding of removal protections,” a divided District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, affirming a trial court’s summary judgment and class certification rulings but modifying the class definition.
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April 28, 2026
MIAMI — Ticketholders for a 2024 soccer match have reached a class settlement of up to $14 million to end claims that some of them were denied entry and others were denied access to their seats after thousands of fans without tickets rushed the Florida stadium; final approval of the agreement was issued by a federal judge in Florida.
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April 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel issued a writ of mandamus sought by federal government parties in a class case over the deportation of Venezuelan men the government has alleged are members of a criminal gang and directed the trial court to terminate criminal contempt proceedings related to the transfer of these men to a megaprison in El Salvador, referred to as CECOT, after the court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring the removal of any of the men.
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April 24, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal magistrate judge granted a request to proceed anonymously by a Jane Doe plaintiff seeking to represent “Jeffrey Epstein survivors” whose personally identifiable information was disclosed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in her putative class action against the United States and Google LLC for violating federal privacy laws and California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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April 24, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The California Fair Plan Association (CFP) said it is appealing a California court’s grant of summary adjudication in favor of an insured as to his sole remaining claim for declaratory relief in his lawsuit alleging that CFP issued property insurance policies with fire coverage that is unlawfully restrictive as to smoke damage claims.
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April 23, 2026
NEW YORK — Responding to the appellees’ request to remove certain language from its decision in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act dispute centered on residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 22 issued an amended opinion that — like the initial one — partly reversed and remanded a ruling against pension fund trustees.
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April 23, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — In an insured’s dispute with his lender over its alleged failure to endorse settlement checks as an additional payee in a hurricane coverage dispute involving a now-insolvent insurer, the lender filed a motion in Louisiana federal court seeking to change the date for oral argument on its motion to dismiss.
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April 23, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — As urged by the appellees and a handful of amici curiae, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed that an incentive compensation program “qualifies as a ‘bonus plan exempt from’” the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, affirming summary judgment against a former financial adviser who filed the putative class action; one panel member wrote a concurring opinion to emphasize “that any other conclusion would generate an avalanche of deleterious consequences.”
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April 22, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — Writing that an appeal brought by individuals seeking to intervene in a class action settlement with Google “presents an example of ‘too little, too late’ for would-be class action intervenors,” a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a district court’s denial of intervention and held that the absent class members’ attempt to enter the case to preserve appellate review of the denial of a damages class was untimely because it came years after that ruling and on the eve of settlement approval and would prejudice the parties by likely unraveling the negotiated injunctive relief settlement.
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April 22, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota federal judge granted final approval to an $84 million settlement and then closed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit that concerned allegations that Wells Fargo & Co. improperly used dividends of its preferred stock held in its 401(k)’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fund; the judge noted that the defendants didn’t contest the plaintiffs’ assertion “that the settlement is ‘the largest-ever class action settlement of ERISA claims arising from an employee stock ownership plan.’”
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April 22, 2026
ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 21 held that a lower court erred in dismissing Florida insureds’ breach of contract complaint for lack of jurisdiction without analyzing whether the claims against insurers were frivolous, vacating in part and remanding for a new jurisdictional inquiry under the Class Action Fairness Act.
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April 22, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal judge granted final approval of a $650,000 data breach class settlement against a beverage company, certifying a nationwide class and awarding one-third in attorney fees over the company’s objection, after earlier denying preliminary approval and requiring the plaintiff to cure deficiencies in the settlement papers in a case arising from a cyberattack that allegedly exposed employees’ personal information.
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April 21, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — Airline customers who filed a putative class complaint for safety assurances-related breach of contract against Southwest Airlines Co. following the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 8 (MAX) aircraft after two crashes failed to plausibly allege an injury in fact, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished per curiam opinion affirming a trial court’s decision but with different reasoning.
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April 21, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A California man requested the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that he is not a “‘consumer’” under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), arguing that the appellate court added an audiovisual limitation to the statute’s definition amid a circuit split over whether the VPPA applies to all goods or services offered by a video tape service provider (VTSP) or only to its audiovisual offerings in cases alleging that website operators disclosed users’ video-viewing activity and identifying information to third parties through tracking technologies.