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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • July 07, 2026

    Kalshi Loses Bid To Block NY Gambling Law Enforcement

    Kalshi cannot block New York from enforcing its gambling laws against the prediction market platform's sports-related offerings while the company pursues litigation accusing the state of intruding on the federal government's regulatory authority over derivatives trading, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

  • July 07, 2026

    Veradigm Can't Shake Suit Over Patient Portal Data Tracking

    An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health information to Google, finding that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the company's conduct violated federal and state wiretap laws.

  • July 07, 2026

    Kalshi Says Federal Law Bars Wash. 'Gambling' Clampdown

    Prediction market KalshiEX LLC urged a Washington state judge on Monday to reject state officials' effort to halt the company's operations under Washington gambling laws, arguing that federal law preempts the regulatory effort and that Washington has failed to show that the platform has caused meaningful harm.

  • July 07, 2026

    Illinois Cases To Watch In 2026: Midyear Report

    Mead Johnson is set to go to trial this summer in the first case to make it to a jury in multidistrict litigation claiming baby formula caused a serious gut illness in premature infants, while the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is facing a possible sanctions hearing over prosecutorial misconduct allegations in two Illinois cases on attorneys' radar for the rest of the year.

  • July 07, 2026

    Meta Pans States' Bid For $1.4T In Social Media Addiction MDL

    Meta said Monday that California and three other states are seeking more than a trillion dollars in penalties in their upcoming August trial in the multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, based on sweeping, "unmoored" calculations.

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