Class Action

  • April 22, 2025

    NC Justice Fights GOP Challenger's 'Dangerous' Vote Fight

    North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs urged a federal judge to dismiss the federal election law challenge brought by the Republican candidate she ran against for her seat, arguing it is "dangerous" to allow unsuccessful candidates to challenge election laws only after they have already lost.

  • April 22, 2025

    Judge Wonders If BofA Fake Accounts Suit Is 'Fishing'

    A North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday questioned why he shouldn't dismiss a proposed class action alleging Bank of America opened unauthorized accounts in people's names after the bank argued that a similar suit against Wells Fargo didn't survive.

  • April 22, 2025

    Save Mart Reaches $20.5M Deal On Nonunion Retiree Benefits

    California-based Save Mart Supermarkets will pay about $20.5 million to escape a suit from workers who alleged the company unlawfully revoked a monthly health reimbursement that it promised to nonunion retirees and their spouses for life, according to a proposed deal filed in federal court.

  • April 22, 2025

    Parker-Hannifin Workers Asked For Input On 401(k) Fund Case

    Parker-Hannifin Corp. employees were asked Monday to respond to a petition seeking U.S. Supreme Court review of their recently revived 401(k) plan mismanagement allegations.

  • April 22, 2025

    Anticipating NIL Deal, NCAA Changes Athlete Pay Rules

    The NCAA has officially adopted policy changes that will allow college athletes to be paid, to go into effect when the $2.78 billion antitrust settlement between schools and athletes receives final court approval.

  • April 22, 2025

    Wells Fargo 'Sham' Hiring Suit Delayed For Mediation

    A California federal judge agreed to move deadlines in a proposed investor class action accusing Wells Fargo of conducting "sham" job interviews to meet diversity targets that later triggered a stock drop when the practice was revealed, citing plans to attempt mediation in May.

  • April 22, 2025

    NCAA Says It Can't Be Sued Over Trans Athlete's Participation

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association said U.S. Supreme Court precedent should excuse it from a suit by three former collegiate swimmers over a transgender athlete's participation in a 2022 competition at Harvard University.

  • April 21, 2025

    Toyota Accused Of Illegally Selling Driver Data To Progressive

    Toyota has for years been using tracking devices to collect drivers' driving habits and other personal information and selling the driver data to third parties like auto insurer Progressive without consent, a putative class action filed Monday in Texas federal court alleges.

  • April 21, 2025

    Google Gets 'Fail-Safe' AI Copyright Class Axed, For Now

    A California federal judge on Monday struck a proposed class definition in a consolidated action brought by artists and authors claiming Google infringed their copyrights to train artificial intelligence models, saying the plaintiffs have proposed an improper "fail-safe" class but may try again with an amended definition.

  • April 21, 2025

    Intel Retirees Seek Cert. In ERISA Suit Over Annuity Changes

    A proposed class of nearly 2,000 Intel Corp. retirees urged a California federal judge on Monday to certify the retirees' Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims alleging Intel relied on outdated mortality assumptions when it converted their single life annuities to a joint and survivor design, resulting in lower payouts.

  • April 21, 2025

    Binance Crypto Suit Sent To Florida To Avoid Duplication

    A Washington federal judge on Monday transferred to Florida a proposed class action over Binance's alleged role in laundering stolen cryptocurrency, finding that the case heavily overlapped with a lawsuit filed earlier in the Sunshine State that was sent to arbitration.

  • April 21, 2025

    NJ Investment Firm Accused Of Aiding Alleged $300M Ponzi

    A New Jersey investment adviser has been hit with a proposed class action claiming the company helped recruit marks for what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has called a $300 million Ponzi scheme, making it at least the second company to be sued for its alleged connections to the fraud operation.

  • April 21, 2025

    New Cos. Added As 7 Other Firefighter Unions Join PFAS Suit

    Seven firefighters unions have joined a proposed class action accusing 3M Co., DuPont and safety gear companies of knowingly exposing first responders to cancer-causing "forever chemicals" in their protective equipment, according to a newly amended complaint filed in Connecticut federal court.

  • April 21, 2025

    Roblox Secretly Tracks Kids' Data, Parents Say

    Roblox invades its users' privacy by surreptitiously intercepting communications and harvesting personal data without consent through tracking code on its gaming platform despite knowing that a large percentage of its user base is children under the age of 13, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.

  • April 21, 2025

    En Banc 9th Circ. Revives Shopify Data Privacy Fight

    A split Ninth Circuit en banc panel Monday revived a proposed class action alleging Shopify violates privacy rights by embedding payment-processing code on merchant websites that surreptitiously tracks consumers' location and collects personal data, with a nearly unanimous majority finding the location-tracking allegations establish specific jurisdiction in the Golden State.

  • April 21, 2025

    Premera's Teen Trans Policy 'Textbook' Sex Bias, Judge Says

    Premera Blue Cross discriminated based on sex against transgender teens at the center of a lawsuit alleging the insurer and health plan administrator illegally denied coverage for gender-affirming chest surgery, according to a Washington federal judge who also denied class certification because the teens' claims are not typical of class members.

  • April 21, 2025

    $650K Settlement Reached In Onboarding Data Breach Suit

    A $650,000 settlement has been reached in a class action accusing a company that helps clients complete required Form 1-9 documents of failing to properly safeguard the personally identifiable information of hundreds of thousands in a February 2024 data breach.

  • April 21, 2025

    DraftKings Targeted Gambling Addicts, Suit Claims

    Online gambling giant DraftKings Inc. and a subsidiary have been hit with a proposed class action accusing them of engaging in a range of deceptive practices including knowingly targeting people suffering from gambling addiction and allowing those on Pennsylvania's self-exclusion gambling list to open new accounts.

  • April 21, 2025

    Royal Caribbean Faces Class Action Over Hidden Cameras

    A putative class suing Royal Caribbean after a now-former employee secretly placed a hidden camera in their rooms is fighting the cruise line's bid to force their damages claims into arbitration, saying it's "absurd" to argue that they agreed to waive their right to litigate such claims.

  • April 21, 2025

    EV Chipmaker Wolfspeed's Execs Sued For Overstated Growth

    Executives and directors of North Carolina-based electric vehicle chip manufacturer Wolfspeed Inc. were hit with a derivative suit on Monday alleging they overstated the potential effects a fabrication facility would have on increasing Wolfspeed's revenue and output.

  • April 21, 2025

    Veterans Urge High Court To Ax Time Bar For Compensation

    Veterans challenging an appellate court's ruling that a six-year limit applies to their claims for retroactive combat-related special compensation have told the U.S. Supreme Court that Congress's statute authorizing the compensation displaced preexisting settlement mechanisms and their statute of limitations.

  • April 21, 2025

    Crypto Cos. Sued Over 'Covert' Meme Coin 'Pump-And-Dump'

    A proposed securities class action in New York federal court is accusing a crypto platform, a venture capital firm and their executives of a "covertly orchestrated" scheme to pump and dump a token affiliated with a newly launched meme coin exchange.

  • April 21, 2025

    Ex-JPMorgan Worker's PAGA Claim May Be Arbitrated

    A California judge indicated Monday she may send to arbitration a former JPMorgan Chase Bank worker's individual claim brought under the Private Attorneys General Act alleging the bank encouraged workers to perform off-the-clock work but failed to pay them accordingly, issuing a tentative order that would split off her representative claims and pause them.

  • April 21, 2025

    YouTube's 'Nelk Boys' Want Suit Over NFTs Tossed

    A pair of influencers behind the YouTube channel "Nelk Boys" asked a California federal judge to toss a lawsuit brought by a buyer of their crypto product who claimed the promised benefits never materialized, arguing the complaint does not show the defendants made any claims that have not or will not be fulfilled.

  • April 21, 2025

    Hertz Failed To Protect Customers' Data In Hack, Suits Say

    Hertz and its cloud-based data management host have been hit with proposed class privacy suits claiming the Florida-based car rental giant negligently failed to follow even the most basic information security practices to help protect customers' personal information from a ransomware attack.

Expert Analysis

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Behind 3rd Circ. Ruling On College Athletes' FLSA Eligibility

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    The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athletes as employees, such as Title IX equal pay claims and potential eligibility for all employment benefits, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Assessing Algorithmic Versus Generative AI Pricing Tools

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    A comparison of traditional algorithmic pricing models and those powered by generative artificial intelligence can help regulators and practitioners weigh the pros and cons of relying on large language models to price products or services, say Maxime Cohen at McGill University, and Tim Spittle and Jimmy Royer at Analysis Group.

  • New Employer Liability Risks In Old Ill. Genetic Privacy Law

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    Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act has been litigated very sparsely, but two recent federal court decisions — Taylor v. Union Pacific and McKnight v. United Airlines — holding that preemployment family medical history questions violated the 1998 law may encourage more lawsuits, say Peter Berk and Madison Shepley at Clark Hill.

  • DOJ Must Overcome Hurdles In RealPage Antitrust Case

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent claims that RealPage's pricing software violates the Sherman Act mark a creative, and apparently contradictory, shift in the agency's approach to algorithmic price-fixing that will face several key challenges, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • Opinion

    3rd. Circ. Got It Right On Cancer Warning Claims Preemption

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    The Third Circuit's recent, eminently sensible ruling in a failure-to-warn case against Roundup manufacturer Monsanto, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act preempts state law claims, provides a road map that other courts should adopt, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation.

  • Court Denial Of $335M UFC Deal Sets Bold Antitrust Precedent

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    A Nevada federal court’s recent refusal to accept a $335 million deal between Ultimate Fighting Championship and a group of former fighters to settle claims of anticompetitive conduct was a rare decision that risks the floodgates opening on established antitrust case law, says Mohit Pasricha at Lawrence Stephens.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions

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    Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.

  • Employers Should Not Neglect Paid Military Leave Compliance

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    An August decision from the Ninth Circuit and the settlement of a long-running class action, both examining paid leave requirements under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, are part of a nationwide trend that should prompt employers to review their military leave policies to avoid potential litigation and reputational damage, says Bradford Kelley at Littler.

  • Unpacking Jurisdiction Issues In 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling

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    The Third Circuit's recent ruling in George v. Rushmore Service Center could be interpreted to establish three principles regarding district courts' jurisdiction to enter arbitration-related orders under the Federal Arbitration Act, two of which may lead to confusion, says David Cinotti at Pashman Stein.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings

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    Recent cyber disruption incidents, like the Crowdstrike outage and the CDK Global cyberattack this summer, highlight the necessity of understanding legal interpretations of cyberinsurance coverage — an area in which there has been little litigation thus far, say Peter Halprin and Rebecca Schwarz at Haynes Boone.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

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