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October 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two federal student loan borrowers filed a putative class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education in a federal court in the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and other former students of “predatory for-profit institutions,” alleging that they have been deprived of “their legal entitlement to a clean financial slate” when the Education Department represented to consumer credit bureaus that they owe on student loan debts that were extinguished “years ago.”
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October 01, 2026
Customers affected by oil prices filed two separate putative class complaints, one in New York federal court and one in Delaware federal court, accusing shale oil producers of violating antitrust laws and conspiring since 2021 to fix gas prices by allegedly coordinating “production decisions” and slowing production of shale oil from hydraulic fracturing to rates “that are lower than would be seen in a competitive market, despite high oil prices and healthy global demand.”
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October 01, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals directed decertification of a provisionally certified class and vacated a preliminary injunction ordering that Oregon’s Department of Corrections (ODOC) end housing transgender women in men’s facilities without further review, opining that the trial court erred when it found that the state corrections officials “applied a ‘default presumption’ that ‘transgender’ inmates be assigned to men’s prisons.”
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October 01, 2026
ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a two-sentence per curiam unpublished opinion addressing three appeals affirmed approval of settlements between home sellers, real estate franchise and The National Association of Realtors (NAR) found by a jury to have conspired to artificially inflate the cost of commissions in residential real estate transactions.
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October 01, 2026
GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge in Maryland partially granted federal government parties’ motion to dismiss and dismissed without prejudice a putative Privacy Act class complaint by four former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees who were terminated based on directives issued by the Trump administration and who alleged that their employment records were incomplete and inaccurate, finding that the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) “provides the exclusive means for the Plaintiffs to obtain judicial review of this adverse personnel action.”
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September 30, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on Sept. 29 granted a woman’s motion to certify a statewide class bringing claims against a tampon manufacturer for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by allegedly misrepresenting its tampons as safe when they in fact contained lead in its tampons and granted in part and denied in part a defense motion to exclude the plaintiff’s expert witness.
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September 30, 2026
DENVER — Resolving cross-appeals filed after the class in an early retirement benefits dispute concerning a multiemployer fund obtained a judgment in the amount of $24,851,056, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 29 revived fiduciary breach claims asserted by 66 boilermakers but otherwise affirmed the trial court.
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September 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump and other federal government parties filed an application with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a stay of a trial court’s preliminary injunction that enjoins the enforcement of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) February 2026 near-total ban on gender-affirming care.
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September 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court did not err when it denied a retailer’s request to compel members of a certified consumer class to arbitrate their claims in a case over bedding thread counts, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, finding that the retailer failed to provide proof that any individual class member accessed the exact webpages that appeared in screenshots provided by the retailer.
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September 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Immigration detainees and the state of Washington filed supplemental briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 29 opposing arguments made by the United States in an amicus curiae brief supporting a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the operator of immigration detention centers, which is asking the high court to decide whether the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause permits a state to find that detainees participating in a voluntary work program are employees who are owed state-mandated minimum wages.
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September 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court majority on Sept. 29 granted an application by federal government parties and stayed a February ruling by a federal court in Massachusetts that declared the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s March 2025 third-country removals policy “unlawful”; the high court also treated the application by DHS and others as a petition for a writ of certiorari, granted it and directed the parties to provide briefs addressing jurisdiction, classwide declaratory relief and the lawfulness of the federal government’s guidance.
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September 29, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York dismissed an investor’s putative securities fraud class action against a global offshore drilling company and certain of executives for alleged misstatements about the readiness of two rigs to conduct operations, finding that the investor’s allegations did not give rise to the requisite strong inference of scienter.
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September 29, 2026
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Three life insurance trusts filed a putative class action complaint in a Connecticut federal court alleging that private equity owners acquired PHL Variable Insurance Co. after promising regulators and policyholders they would preserve and strengthen it, but instead diverted assets through a stranger-originated life insurance (STOLI) buyback program and captive reinsurance arrangements, concealed the insurer’s deteriorating financial condition and ultimately left policyholders subject to a $300,000 death benefit cap.
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September 29, 2026
BOSTON — Overruling objections from each party in a putative class action that is part of a wave of pension risk transfer (PRT) challenges, a Massachusetts federal judge on Sept. 28 adopted a report and recommendation that concluded that the amended complaint “plausibly alleges that a fiduciary breach occurred” but that only a claim against an independent fiduciary and one of the fiduciary’s managing directors survives dismissal.
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September 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nestle USA Inc. filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking U.S. Supreme Court justices to consider three questions concerning damages and injunctive relief classes in a case by consumers who allege that the company’s cocoa labeling is misleading.
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September 28, 2026
DENVER — Consumers of “Natural American Spirit” (NAS) cigarettes filed a brief opposing three tobacco companies’ petition urging the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to rehear en banc a challenge to certification of a class action representing smokers in 12 states who brought claims in a multidistrict litigation alleging that NAS are misleadingly labeled as “natural” and “additive-free,” writing that the panel properly evaluated the certification orders.
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September 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny a petition by the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal government parties in a noncitizen removal class case seeking consideration of three questions concerning the lawfulness of a presidential proclamation that limited asylum and withheld removal applications and the availability of classwide relief as the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals majority “correctly held that the President may not invent by fiat a new removal system that eviscerates the protections Congress mandated by statute,” three nonprofits and 13 individuals argue in their opposition brief.
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September 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Petitioners whose certiorari petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision focuses on the Fourth Circuit’s recent Trauernicht v. Genworth Fin. Inc. ruling have filed a supplemental brief highlighting two developments they say “underscore that this case raises a certworthy question on the scope of ‘appropriate relief’” under part of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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September 28, 2026
SEATTLE — The manufacturer of a generic drug used to treat high blood pressure and other heart-related disorders asked a Washington federal court to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that its generic carvedilol was contaminated with a potentially harmful nitrosamine, arguing that the named plaintiff failed to allege that she purchased any recalled or defective tablets.
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September 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Individuals with ownership interests in Indian trust lands on a North Dakota reservation filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to decide in a long-running putative class pipeline dispute whether they have “a federal common-law cause of action for trespass on their allotments.”
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September 25, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A woman seeking to represent nationwide and California classes of purchasers on Sept. 24 amended her complaint against Veracity Wellness Inc. that alleges that the company deceptively markets its Metabolism Ignite dietary supplement as “Nature’s Ozempic” and as a natural alternative to prescription weight-loss drugs, asserting claims for violation of California’s unfair competition law and other laws.
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September 25, 2026
HAMMOND, Ind. — An Indiana federal judge adopted the result of a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation and denied two motions for partial judgment on the pleadings filed by manufacturing companies accused of exposing to lead 11 minors who lived in homes and attended elementary school in an area later discovered to be contaminated, writing that “throwaway lines in a brief” regarding four plaintiffs not having injuries do not constitute “judicial admissions” that would warrant dismissal of their claims.
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September 24, 2026
CHICAGO — One of the cases in a wave of tobacco surcharge challenges would be resolved for $8.95 million under a class settlement an Illinois federal judge has granted preliminary approval.
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September 24, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Following briefing that was conducted on an accelerated schedule, the Fourth Circuit has scheduled oral argument for Oct. 30 in 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 Trauernicht v. Genworth Fin. Inc. ruling the appellate court handed down in March.
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September 24, 2026
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Noting that interest from the defendants’ early payment of $13.4 million had grown the common fund to $13,524,410.05, a Massachusetts federal judge gave final approval to the class settlement of a case in which 401(k) plan participants challenged recordkeeping and managed account fees and inclusion of two allegedly underperforming investment options.