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Latest News in Class Action

  • July 09, 2026

    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

    The year's second quarter brought several notable banking law developments to New York, including a proposal to align state stablecoin rules with the federal Genius Act, fresh fair lending and cybersecurity guidance from state regulators, and a significant Second Circuit holding on preemption, say attorneys at Ashurst Perkins Coie.

  • July 09, 2026

    PacifiCorp Ruling Shows Limits Of Aggregate Wildfire Loss Models

    An Oregon appeals court's recent decision in James v. PacifiCorp illustrates that in litigation involving multiple wildfires, materially different causation theories, and evidence tied to particular fires and locations, a single undifferentiated damages model is vulnerable to attack, say Paige Van Oosten and Jason Kim at Hunton and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

  • July 09, 2026

    Migrants Look To Certify Class In Martha's Vineyard Flight Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge has been asked to certify a class of migrants alleging they were tricked into boarding flights from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in a political stunt.

  • July 09, 2026

    Workers Drop WARN Act Suit To Join Related Colo. Case

    Two former employees dropped a proposed class action accusing a recently shuttered commercial facility services company of failing to warn workers before mass layoffs and facility closures, with the case expected to be consolidated with a related Colorado federal suit.

  • July 08, 2026

    Baxter Beats Stable Value Fund 401(k) Plan Suit, For Good

    Baxter International permanently defeated a proposed class action claiming the relatively low returns of the medical products company's employee retirement plan were evidence of mismanagement, after an Illinois federal judge ruled Tuesday the allegations only show the stable value fund in the plan "may not have been best in class — nothing more."

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