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May 06, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The plaintiffs representing a putative class of consumers who say they were misled into overpaying for Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone models based on Apple’s misrepresentations about the artificial intelligence capabilities that the iPhone 16’s “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would offer moved May 5 for preliminary approval of a $250 million settlement, with an estimated $70 million in attorney fees, to resolve their claims that Apple violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws.
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May 06, 2026
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Overruling the lone objection he said failed to “raise substantive or persuasive concerns about the adequacy, reasonableness, or fairness of the settlement,” a California federal judge granted final approval to a $21.5 million class deal that resolved a long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act pension benefits class action the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals partly revived in November 2024 after a bench trial.
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May 06, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel stayed pending appeal a preliminary injunction in a provisionally certified class case brought by journalists and protesters who allege that they were shot at and tear-gassed while attending and covering immigration policy protests outside a building in Portland that they refer to as the “Portland ICE building.”
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May 06, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge partially granted and partially denied a data analytics company’s motions to dismiss and strike a data privacy class action that alleges unlawful interception and monetization of users’ video-viewing data, holding that the plaintiffs plausibly alleged Article III injury based on the collection and commercialization of identifiable viewing histories and user profiling, but dismissed claims brought under the Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA), the California unfair competition law (UCL) and some claims brought under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) for failure to state a claim.
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May 06, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — Nestle USA Inc.’s petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc was denied by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals after a divided panel in January affirmed a trial court’s certification of two California classes of consumers in a case accusing the company of labeling that falsely implies that its chocolate products are produced without child labor and deforestation in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA).
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May 05, 2026
COLUMBUS, Ohio — After the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated an order granting class certification and issued a limited remand, an Ohio federal judge issued an order stating the class remains certified in a suit against FirstEnergy Corp. brought by investors regarding a $2 billion bribery scheme, finding that “any question regarding the applicability of the [Basic Inc. v. Levinson] presumption of reliance is beyond the scope of the Sixth Circuit’s limited remand.”
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May 05, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The United States of America filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit filed by California homeowners affected by the Los Angeles wildfires against their insurers for violations of the state’s Cartwright Act and unfair competition law (UCL), negligence and fraud, noting that although the action asserts only state competition law claims, the United States has a strong interest because the alleged conduct by the insurers “presents a serious concern under the federal antitrust laws.”
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May 05, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York granted motions in two putative class complaints to postpone the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary’s decision to terminate the temporary protected status (TPS) for Yemen, which was first designated in 2015.
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May 05, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Two consumers on May 4 filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of a putative nationwide class against a New Jersey company that sells tomatoes labeled as “Certified” and “San Marzano,” alleging that the tomatoes are not from the San Marzano region and are deceptively labeled in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and seeking $25 million in restitution.
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May 05, 2026
NEW YORK — On May 4, a New York federal judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement that a class of employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) participants say has “a total economic value exceeding $22.5 million” and “represents a recovery of approximately 71% of remaining losses” in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act case.
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May 04, 2026
CHICAGO — A company that develops and sells workplace biometric timeclocks and its insurers will pay $1,685,000 to end class claims by an Illinois woman that the company collected and stored her biometric data and the biometric data of others in violation of the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA), according to an order dismissing the case with prejudice filed by a federal judge in that state.
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May 04, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California granted final approval of a $65 million settlement in a case brought by investors against the company that created Snapchat for allegedly misleading investors when discussing the impact of Apple Inc.’s advertising changes to the company’s revenue.
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May 04, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed a data privacy class action against four food bank organizations and Meta Platforms Inc., which alleged unlawful tracking and disclosure of users’ financial and medical information through Meta’s Tracking Pixel, holding that plaintiffs failed to plausibly allege a concrete injury and had consented to the challenged data practices.
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May 01, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Arguing in part that en banc rehearing is not warranted because “[t]he panel nowhere placed class certification off-limits for all § 502(a)(2) claims involving defined-contribution plans,” an employer urged the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to let stand an interlocutory ruling that reversed and vacated certification of a mandatory class in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case challenging the employer’s decision to include passively managed BlackRock LifePath Index target date funds (TDFs) in its retirement plan.
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April 30, 2026
WILMINGTON, N.C. — A federal judge in North Carolina has partially granted and partially denied a motion by E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. and two affiliates to exclude a plaintiffs’ expert in a consolidated class action alleging injuries from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), finding that she is unqualified to offer some of her opinions but rejecting the defendants’ argument that all of her opinions related to air and water modeling should be excluded.
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April 30, 2026
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois denied a motion for partial reconsideration filed by Walgreens Boots Alliance and several of its current and former executives in a case brought by investors regarding numerous alleged misstatements the company made about Walgreens’ primary care clinic venture; the judge found that an audio recording of one of the remaining misstatements had been available when the motion to dismiss was being briefed.
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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.