Class Action

  • April 25, 2025

    World Cup Workers Sue PR Firms For Hiding Labor Abuses

    Two public relations giants helped the Qatari government hide human trafficking and other labor abuses in the construction of venues for the 2022 men's World Cup, more than 100 Filipino migrant workers claim in a suit in New York federal court.

  • April 25, 2025

    Calif. High Court Wants Answers On Bar Exam AI Use

    Days after the State Bar of California revealed it utilized artificial intelligence to develop some questions included in its embattled February 2025 exam, the state's Supreme Court released a statement demanding the bar association provide additional details.

  • April 25, 2025

    Benefits Co. Failed To Protect Personal Info, Suit Says

    An employee benefits administrator failed to properly secure and safeguard private information of benefits recipients, including their names and Social Security numbers, that was later compromised in a data breach, according to a proposed class action in Maryland federal court.

  • April 25, 2025

    Health Insurance Cos. Deny Agents OT Pay, Suit Says

    A group of health insurance companies failed to pay agents at a time-and-a-half rate for their hours worked over 40 per week and improperly calculated workers' pay rates, according to a proposed collective action filed in Florida federal court.

  • April 25, 2025

    Mass. Data Broker Accused Of Flouting Colo. Privacy Law

    A Massachusetts data broker is violating a Colorado law barring the inclusion of personal cellphone numbers in online directories without permission, a proposed class action alleges.

  • April 24, 2025

    Circuit-By-Circuit Guide As Justices Confront Class Cert. Split

    The U.S. Supreme Court is set for climactic arguments over class certification standards that have cleaved circuits from coast to coast for much of the past two decades, teeing up a make-or-break ruling for many class actions and a transformative event for legal practice in the swelling litigation realm.

  • April 24, 2025

    Target Hit With False Ad Suit Over Citric Acid In Pasta Sauce

    Target falsely marketed its store brand pasta sauces as having no "artificial" preservatives despite containing synthetic manufactured citric acid, according to a proposed class action removed to California federal court Wednesday.

  • April 24, 2025

    Starbucks Sued Over Human Rights Abuses On Coffee Farms

    The supply chain for Starbucks' Brazilian coffee is rife with slavery-like conditions and child labor, coffee plantation workers have said in a lawsuit, alleging they were forced to work for suppliers of the global coffee chain under "debt bondage" and threats of violence.

  • April 24, 2025

    Ex-OpenAI Workers, Nobel Laureates Back Musk OpenAI Fight

    A group of former OpenAI employees and artificial intelligence experts, including some Nobel laureates, have urged the California and Delaware attorneys general to block OpenAI's move to take the company private, arguing that the attorneys general "have both the authority and duty to protect OpenAI's charitable trust and purpose."

  • April 24, 2025

    Ill. Judge Won't Reduce Claims In Defective Smoker Suit

    Grill manufacturer Char-Broil LLC can't escape claims it sold an electric smoker that shocked its users and didn't work correctly even after a recall, a Chicago federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting arguments that the buyers' fight is actually with the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

  • April 24, 2025

    GE Investors' $362.5M Deal Gets Final OK, Attys Get $70M

    A New York federal judge on Thursday gave final approval to a $362.5 million deal and awarded attorneys from Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and Grant & Eisenhofer PA nearly $70 million in attorney fees for their work in a class action that accused General Electric Co. of fraudulently concealing cash flow problems.

  • April 24, 2025

    10th Circ. Says City's COVID-19 Town Hall Calls Weren't Illegal

    Albuquerque didn't break federal robocall laws when it sent residents automated calls to inform them that it would be hosting virtual public meetings during the early years of the coronavirus pandemic, the Tenth Circuit has ruled.

  • April 24, 2025

    Fallout From Ex-Football Coach's Alleged Hacking Spreads

    Three more universities were hit with lawsuits this week by students who say they were targets of a former University of Michigan and Baltimore Ravens coach accused of hacking accounts to steal intimate photos, as the number of suits stemming from the scandal continues to grow.

  • April 24, 2025

    Apple, Google, Roblox Duck Game Addiction Suit, For Now

    An Illinois federal judge Wednesday dismissed Apple, Google and Roblox from a parent's proposed class action accusing multiple video game developers and platforms of peddling their addictive wares to children, saying the allegations lack specificity, but left open the possibility of amending the complaint.

  • April 24, 2025

    $1M Settlement In Ga. PFAS Litigation Gets Judge's Final OK

    A Georgia federal judge gave a final sign-off Wednesday to a $1 million settlement that will see a chemical company provide temporary drinking water resources to a northwest Georgia town to end the company's involvement in a suit over the alleged release of forever chemicals into local waterways.

  • April 24, 2025

    Ready Capital Sued Again Over Real Estate Loan Losses

    Ready Capital Corp. and two executives were hit with another derivatives suit alleging statements made in the back half of 2024 about the company's performance misled investors about the significance of several nonperforming commercial real estate loans.

  • April 24, 2025

    ACLU Urges Court To Enforce Family Separation Settlement

    The American Civil Liberties Union has called on a California federal judge to enforce provisions of a 2023 settlement requiring the government to provide legal services to thousands of immigrant families that were separated under the first Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy.

  • April 24, 2025

    Judge's Order For More Changes Puts NCAA Deal In Jeopardy

    The California federal judge overseeing the $2.78 billion settlement between the NCAA and college athletes seeking compensation remained unsatisfied with the NCAA's insistence on roster limits she considers unfair to class members, so much so that she gave the sides two weeks to resolve the issue or risk having the settlement tossed and sent back to litigation.

  • April 24, 2025

    7th Circ. Backs Employers In Pension Fund Withdrawal Fight

    The Seventh Circuit upheld Thursday a trial court's ruling that two employers aren't required to pay a higher rate calculating how much it would cost to jump ship from a failing pension plan, knocking down arguments from the pension fund that an exception to the rate limit applied.

  • April 24, 2025

    JPMorgan, Retiree Resolve Benefits Freeze Suit

    A former JPMorgan worker dropped a Second Circuit bid to revive his lawsuit claiming the financial giant failed to properly disclose how changes to an employee pension plan could result in a freeze on participants' benefits.

  • April 24, 2025

    Honda Fights Class Cert. In Kronos Hack Wages Suit

    Honda Development & Manufacturing of America LLC has pushed back on a certification bid from a proposed class seeking unpaid overtime wages in Ohio federal court, arguing in part that the named plaintiff's claims are moot.

  • April 24, 2025

    Calif. Panel Says Insurance Adjuster's PAGA Suit Is Too Late

    A former adjuster for an insurance claims management company was too late in filing his Private Attorneys General Act suit seeking penalties for unpaid overtime on behalf of other workers, a California appellate panel ruled, upholding a lower court.

  • April 24, 2025

    Judge Orders Another Asylum-Seeker's Return From El Salvador

    A Baltimore federal judge has directed the Trump administration to bring back a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker sent to an El Salvador prison last month, marking the second time the government has been ordered to "facilitate" the return of an individual deported under the Alien Enemies Act.

  • April 24, 2025

    Insurance Cos. Need Not Cover Medical Cannabis In NM

    A New Mexico federal judge has thrown out a medical cannabis seller's suit against three insurers over coverage of medical cannabis, finding that New Mexico law doesn't mandate coverage, and even if it did, it would be preempted by federal law.

  • April 24, 2025

    Subscribers Lob Data-Sharing Suit At Baseball Media Co.

    Baseball America Inc. customers have hit the company with a proposed class action in North Carolina federal court, alleging the sports publication illegally tracks their activity and shares the collected private data with third parties.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.

  • Reading Tea Leaves In Fed. Circ. Deep Dive On Review Scope

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    Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer investigates why a recent Federal Circuit opinion spent six pages explaining its unsurprising conclusion on proper scope of review — that no deference need be afforded to the trial court in a case dismissed for failure to state a claim.

  • How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources

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    Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • Newly Acquired Information Can Be Key In Drug Label Cases

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    The question of whether federal law preempts state law claims is often central in pharmaceutical labeling cases, like the Fosamax litigation now before the Third Circuit — but parties must also consider whether there is newly acquired information to justify submitting a proposed labeling change in the first place, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • Nvidia Case's Potential Impact On Securities Class Actions

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    In Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder, the U.S. Supreme Court could strip lower courts of their long-standing ability and obligation to holistically weigh all relevant facts supporting plaintiffs' allegations of securities fraud, which would have a wide-ranging impact on securities fraud class actions in the U.S., say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

  • How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment

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    Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.

  • Where Can Privacy Plaintiffs Sue When Injury Is Online?

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    Website owners need to understand wiretapping laws to understand whether they may be sued for activity tracking in California or Pennsylvania courts, where the statutory damages for violations of half-century-old laws can be substantial — and a recent Third Circuit decision suggests establishing specific jurisdiction is not as easy as 1-2-3, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Short-Seller Implications Of 10th Circ.'s Overstock Decision

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    The Tenth Circuit's Oct. 15 decision in Overstock Securities Litigation provides clarity on the pleading standard for a market manipulation claim under the Exchange Act, and suggests that short sellers might not be able to rely on the fraud-on-the-market presumption typically invoked by securities plaintiffs, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

  • Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity

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    Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.

  • Opinion

    Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules

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    The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • Series

    Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.

  • Tobacco Surcharge Suits Spotlight Wellness Reg Compliance

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    A mounting wave of tobacco-user surcharge litigation against employee benefit plans highlights compliance challenges associated with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act wellness regulations, and reminds plan sponsors to ask existential questions about the utility of their wellness programs, say Finn Pressly and Lesley Wolf at Ballard Spahr.

  • 6 Tips For Cos. Facing Service Provider Cyber Incidents

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    When a third-party service provider experiences a cybersecurity incident, businesses may wonder if their information is compromised and if their systems are safe, but there are certain steps that can help businesses prepare for and respond to targeted attacks on vendors, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Challenges Of Insuring An NIL Collective

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    Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty examines the emergence of name, image and likeness collectives for student-athletes, the current litigation landscape that has created a favorable environment for these organizations, and considerations for director and officer insurers looking to underwrite NIL collectives.

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