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June 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge granted final approval of a $515,000 nonreversionary class settlement and $2,500 service awards for each of two named plaintiffs in a suit alleging that a marine manufacturer failed to safeguard personally identifiable information (PII) of employees and benefit recipients that was allegedly accessed during an April 2023 cyberattack.
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June 19, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Ford Motor Co.’s argument against the admission of an expert retained by a putative class representative who claims that a truck’s transmission was defectively designed is “a broad-side attack on most everything” in the expert’s report but does not explain why the requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 have not been satisfied, a Virginia federal judge held in denying a motion to exclude.
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June 19, 2026
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — An Illinois federal judge certified a class and two subclasses of Illinois citizens accusing Apple Inc. of violating the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) through the iOS Photos app’s People album feature, holding that common questions predominate in the long-running biometric data suit because whether Apple collected or possessed biometric data without complying with BIPA written disclosure requirements can be resolved on a classwide basis.
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June 19, 2026
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Granting summary judgment for an insurer on all claims in a putative class case involving disability benefits under a group occupational accident coverage (OAC) policy offered to independent contractors, a California federal judge ruled that the insurer is entitled to $75,446.71 in equitable restitution for short-term disability (STD) benefits it paid because the claimant also received a $40,000 settlement that falls under the policy’s nonduplication of workers’ compensation provision.
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June 18, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal government parties on June 17 filed in two consolidated cases a response urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an “eleventh-hour” motion filed in one of the two cases by Haitian temporary protected status (TPS) holders asking the justices to dismiss as improvidently granted a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by federal government parties after a federal court in the District of Columbia stayed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to terminate the TPS designation for Haiti.
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June 18, 2026
TACOMA, Wash. — A federal judge in Washington denied a bedding and clothing company’s motion to dismiss a putative class complaint over commercial emails that allegedly employ misleading subject lines about limited-time deals in order to create a false sense of urgency among consumers and denied as moot a motion to stay discovery pending the outcome of the motion to dismiss.
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June 18, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana state judge granted final approval to a claims-made class action settlement resolving a data breach suit against an IT services company filed by a former employee, approving benefits that include reimbursement of up to $750 for ordinary losses, up to $5,000 for extraordinary fraud or identity theft losses, plus separate payments of $195,000 in attorney fees and expenses and a $2,500 service award.
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June 17, 2026
SANTA ANA, Calif. — As lawsuits continue to mount against GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems Inc. related to a May chemical incident involving methyl methacrylate (MMA) at its Orange County, Calif., facility, more residents have filed a putative class action in California state court alleging gross negligence related to the endangerment of public health stemming from the incident.
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June 17, 2026
NEW YORK — Pursuant to joint stipulations, a New York federal judge on June 16 certified mandatory classes as to the remaining claims in two related long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases that generally allege imprudent management of New York University (NYU) retirement plans.
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June 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should dismiss as improvidently granted a petition for a writ of certiorari that was filed by federal government parties after a federal court in the District of Columbia stayed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to terminate the temporary protected status (TPS) for Haiti, Haitian TPS holders argue in a June 16 motion filed in their own case and also docketed in a consolidated case concerning DHS’s decision to terminate the TPS for Syria.
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June 17, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal court in Virginia “committed legal error” and “erroneously ignored the directive of our binding Bojangles [Stafford v. Bojangles’ Restaurants, Inc.] precedent” when it determined that a proposed class of Anheuser-Busch LLC employees who allege they were not paid for pre- and post-shift activities met Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23’s commonality and predominance requirements, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, finding “significant variation in the” employees’ work.
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June 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc filed after the appellate court ruled in March that objections to the class scope, attorney fees and class representative service awards in a Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system fees $125 million class settlement were all “without merit.”
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June 17, 2026
ATLANTA — A divided 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished per curiam opinion that a federal court in Florida misapplied the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) standard of review when it dismissed students’ putative class claims alleging that Florida’s only public historically black university, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), is “chronically” underfunded, impacting staffing and program choices.
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June 16, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — For the second time since a class settlement valued at $27 million was reached in a suit alleging that BMW knowingly manufactured vehicles equipped with defective engines, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a $3.7 million fee award for class counsel, finding that the lower court approved problematic lodestar enhancements.
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June 15, 2026
CINCINNATI — A trial court largely correctly calculated an attorney fee award in a long-running cash advance class case but erred when it applied the method for standardizing legal fees in complex federal litigation in the Washington, D.C., area to firms outside of Washington, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in an unpublished opinion.
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June 15, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted final approval of a class action settlement worth more than $12.8 million, partly in warranty extensions and partly in reimbursement, to resolve claims that a car manufacturer violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by forcing customers to pay out of pocket for certain repairs that California emissions regulations require to be covered by warranty and awarded more than $945,000 in attorney fees.
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June 15, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — A California federal judge partly granted Google LLC’s motion to dismiss dormant claims in a proposed privacy class action over Chrome data collection but allowed Federal Wiretap Act, invasion of privacy, California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) and declaratory relief claims to proceed after finding that Google had not shown at the pleading stage that the challenged data collection was consented to, exempt from the Federal Wiretap Act or tied to Google’s Chrome privacy representations.
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June 12, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A dietary supplement company markets a product as a “natural” alternative or equivalent to prescription diabetes and diet drugs “hoping to cash in on the synthetic GLP-1 agonist craze and swindle Americans, including Californians, into buying its Product,” a woman alleges in a putative class action filed in a California federal court that asserts claims for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws.
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June 12, 2026
NEW YORK — Retirees who sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and related defendants over the use of allegedly outdated mortality tables in calculating qualified joint and survivor annuity (QJSA) benefits have won a New York federal court’s preliminary approval of a class settlement they say has a present value of $23 million.
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June 12, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal magistrate judge on June 11 granted final approval to a settlement of class claims against a California company accused of deceptively marketing its domestic Japanese-style sake as originating in Japan in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), with the company agreeing to change its labels and the plaintiff’s attorneys awarded fees and costs totaling $645,000.
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June 12, 2026
WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas federal judge denied a motion to exclude experts retained by a woman seeking to represent a class of residents whose properties were allegedly contaminated by migrating chemicals that originated at an industrial railroad site and denied the railroad’s motion to dismiss the putative class action.
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June 11, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania borough will change its business practices and pay $1,250,000 to end class claims that it towed, impounded and disposed of vehicles without providing owners with basic due process protections of notice and a hearing, after a federal judge in that state granted final settlement approval.
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June 11, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — A split Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel for a second time reversed dismissal of a class complaint brought by West Virginia foster children, opining that federal courts have “a duty . . . to remedy systemic constitutional rights violations.”
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June 11, 2026
MIAMI — After being advised that the parties have reached a settlement, a Florida federal judge ordered the parties to file a joint stipulation of dismissal by July 1 in a putative class suit accusing a company that sells automotive care products of violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and similar Florida law by sending out unsolicited telemarketing messages.
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June 11, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Four consumers filed a putative class action against a nutritional supplement company alleging that Nature Made-brand “turmeric curcumin” capsules are deceptively marketed in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws and do not provide the benefits that are claimed on the product’s label.