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October 05, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 5 denied Zillow Group Inc. and its executives’ petition for a writ of certiorari arguing that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals applied the wrong standard when it affirmed class certifications in a securities fraud case, choosing not to address what Zillow characterized as a circuit split over rebutting the presumption of reliance at the class-certification stage.
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October 05, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Finding that a group of employers, labor unions and foreign workers would likely succeed on claims that federal agencies skipped required rulemaking and threatened employers’ ability to retain and hire workers by implementing a proclamation issued by President Donald J. Trump that conditions certain H-1B visas on employers making a $100,000 payment to the federal government, a California federal judge partially granted a preliminary injunction and vacated the policies guiding the proclamation’s implementation and barring enforcement of the policies until the agencies conduct notice and comment rulemaking and required analyses under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA).
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October 05, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 5 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by United Airlines Inc. concerning class certification in a case by workers who accuse the airline of discrimination by failing to provide religious and medical accommodations from the COVID-19 vaccine requirement; the high court’s orders list noted that Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh would have granted the petition.
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October 05, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 5 granted the federal government’s petition for a writ of certiorari in a putative class lawsuit over the Homeland Security secretary’s termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for Venezuela and Haiti, vacated the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ judgment in the case and remanded it for further consideration in light of the June decision in Mullin v. Doe.
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October 05, 2026
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Firefighters, unions and the Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters Association of Connecticut (UPFFA) who filed a putative class complaint alleging harm from certain personal protective equipment containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have presented “apparently contradictory positions” on medical monitoring claims, a federal judge in Connecticut wrote, denying the plaintiffs’ motion to certify two medical monitoring-related questions to the Connecticut Supreme Court without prejudice.
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October 05, 2026
Thirty-four class settlements below $5 million were proposed, granted preliminary approval or finalized between mid-February and late September in Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases that concerned alleged mismanagement of retirement plans.
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October 02, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a text-only docket entry, the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 1 requested a response to a certiorari petition seeking review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that cites the Fourth Circuit’s recent Trauernicht v. Genworth Fin. Inc. ruling and concerns what constitutes “appropriate relief” under part of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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October 02, 2026
NEW YORK — In a lengthy docket order, a New York federal judge denied class certification in a suit alleging that Dollar Tree Stores Inc. sold lead-contaminated fruit pouches, adopting a magistrate judge’s findings that individualized questions about each child’s exposure, injuries and medical history prevented class treatment and that the plaintiffs had not established standing or a workable framework for a medical-monitoring class.
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October 02, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal magistrate judge granted in part a pasta maker’s motion to strike a plaintiffs’ expert witness evidence indicating consumer deception as “biased,” granted the company’s motion for summary judgment on claims accusing it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by allegedly deceiving consumers into believing its pasta was made in Italy and denied as moot a defense motion to decertify the plaintiffs’ statewide class.
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October 02, 2026
HAMMOND, Ind. — An Indiana federal judge granted in part and denied in part a motion for class certification filed by 11 minors who are suing manufacturing companies for contaminating the area where they lived and attended elementary school with lead, granting certification of their proposed medical monitoring class but denying certification of the proposed personal injury class because the plaintiffs “suffer from dozens of different conditions.”
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October 01, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York dismissed pension funds’ putative class action against a clinical development and commercialization services company and certain of its former executives for allegedly making misrepresentations about the profitability of certain pre-spin investment projects and the company’s plans to reduce operational expenses after the company was spun off from another company, finding that the pension funds failed to plead their allegations with the requisite scienter.
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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court did not abuse its discretion in certifying injunctive and damages classes in a lawsuit accusing a company that digitizes yearbooks and offers users various levels of access to the information of violating California’s statutory right of publicity, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, rejecting the company’s arguments that individual questions predominate and that the lead plaintiff will not adequately represent the injunctive class.
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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.