Class Action

  • September 25, 2025

    Depo-Provera MDL Plaintiff Numbers Balloon To 1,300

    The plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer failed to warn consumers of a link between brain tumors and the hormonal contraceptive Depo-Provera now number more than 1,300, with more expected to file suits ahead of a hearing Monday on whether their claims are preempted by federal law.

  • September 25, 2025

    Apple Affiliate Pushes To Undo Classes After Wage Case Loss

    Five classes of workers in a $840,000 a wage suit against an Apple-affiliated repair company in North Carolina federal court are rootless after a Fourth Circuit decision, the company said, accusing the workers of fabricating quotes from a case they relied on in their opposition.

  • September 25, 2025

    Aetna Can't Rein In LGBTQ+ Bias Suit Over Fertility Coverage

    Aetna can't narrow a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully required nonheterosexual patients to spend thousands of dollars before covering fertility treatments, as a Connecticut federal judge said the insurer failed to fully acknowledge its role in creating the health plan in question.

  • September 25, 2025

    Driver Says Mazda's Sanctions Bid Is Itself Sanctionable

    The leader of a proposed class of Mazda drivers suing over an alleged oil burning defect is firing back at the automaker's call for sanctions for what it called "frivolous" postjudgment filings, saying Mazda's filing is legally baseless and filled with ad hominem attacks on his attorney, so the company is the one that should face sanctions.

  • September 24, 2025

    How CME Used History To Beat A $2B Trading Rights Claim

    As CME Group faced a $2 billion accusation that its data center trampled on some members' long-held trading floor rights, it knew convincing jurors otherwise meant trusting they'd broaden their perspective beyond a simple comparison to see the traders' dispute was not with the exchange but instead an evolving economy.

  • September 24, 2025

    Robocall Recipients Get Class Cert. Against Ill. Bank

    Consumers who allegedly received unwanted robocalls from Illinois-based Federal Savings Bank will secure certification of a nationwide class of nearly 2.3 million consumers in a proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action, an Illinois federal judge has decided.

  • September 24, 2025

    UnitedHealth Fights Investor Suit Over DOJ's Merger Probe

    UnitedHealth and its executives have asked a Minnesota federal judge to toss a proposed securities class action accusing it of, among many things, not disclosing that the U.S. Department of Justice had reopened an antitrust investigation into the health insurer, saying the complaint consists of unsupported "scattershot allegations."

  • September 24, 2025

    Google, Flo To Pay Combined $56M To End Data Privacy Suit

    Google LLC will shell out $48 million and app developer Flo Health Inc. will pay $8 million to resolve a class action over the popular menstrual tracking app's allegedly unlawful sharing of sensitive health data with Google and others through online tracking tools, according to documents filed by the app's users in California federal court.

  • September 24, 2025

    Coinbase Wants Out Of Terraform Token Conversion Loss Suit

    Coinbase Inc. has urged a California federal court to toss a suit lodged by cryptocurrency buyers alleging the crypto exchange caused them to incur losses after Terraform's collapse three years ago, arguing the buyers' claims are both time-barred and fail to show that the crypto exchange intended to deceive.

  • September 24, 2025

    Swimmers, Divers Rip School, NIL Deal After Team Dropped

    Four former swimming and diving team members at California Polytechnic State University have filed objections in federal court to the NCAA's $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement, after university officials pointed to the financial consequences of the settlement as the reason the swimming and diving program was eliminated.

  • September 24, 2025

    ACLU, Feds Spar Over Classwide Relief In Guantánamo Case

    The American Civil Liberties Union and the Trump administration filed dueling briefs on whether a D.C. federal judge can certify a class and grant classwide relief in a suit challenging the government's transfer of some detained noncitizens to Guantánamo Bay.

  • September 24, 2025

    CVS Moves To End Worker's Tobacco Surcharge ERISA Suit

    CVS urged a California federal judge to toss an employee's proposed class action alleging it illegally imposes surcharges to health plan participants and their covered spouses who use tobacco, arguing it offers surcharge alternatives to workers and spouses when a medical condition makes it unreasonably difficult to cease tobacco use.

  • September 24, 2025

    Vehicle-Maker Says Ex-Worker Can't Bring Smoker-Fee Suit

    International Motors LLC, formerly Navistar, is looking to end a proposed class action by a former employee who claims its $50-a-month health insurance fee for workers who use tobacco violates federal law, telling an Illinois federal court that the harm he suffered was caused by his own refusal to quit smoking or try the company's smoke-free program.

  • September 24, 2025

    Execs Breached Danish Deal In $2B Tax Case, Court Says

    Three men claiming to be pension plan executives who struck a civil settlement with the Danish taxing authority over their role in a $2 billion tax fraud scheme breached their settlement agreement, a New York federal court found, saying the men had not paid back the amount they promised.

  • September 24, 2025

    Bank Says It's Being Blocked From Settlement Fund Market

    Flatirons Bank has sued Eastern Point Trust Co. in Wyoming federal court for allegedly blocking competition in the market for qualified settlement fund services by threatening baseless litigation and falsely claiming that Flatirons' platform copies its own offering.

  • September 24, 2025

    AGs Slam Capital One's $425M Deal As Unfair To Consumers

    New York Attorney General Letitia James and 17 other attorneys general are opposing a proposed $425 million settlement between Capital One and a putative consumer class alleging the bank deceptively advertised its 360 Savings accounts, telling a Virginia federal court the deal "fails to adequately redress" the harms caused by the scheme.

  • September 24, 2025

    Del. Justices Uphold $10.5B Zendesk Take-Private Deal

    Delaware's Supreme Court early Wednesday upheld the Court of Chancery's Sept. 10 dismissal of a stockholder challenge to the $10.5 billion take-private deal for software as a service business Zendesk Inc., closing the book on the case in two sentences issued two weeks after appeal arguments.

  • September 24, 2025

    Athletes Say NCAA's Dismissal Bid Rehashes Old Arguments

    A group of Division I athletes looking to be classified as employees filed a succinct reply chiding the NCAA and several prestigious universities for their "hundreds of pages" of "repetitive, overlapping" arguments that rehash points already made in Pennsylvania federal court.

  • September 24, 2025

    Data Storage Provider Reaches Deal To End 401(k) Suit

    An information storage and management provider and 401(k) plan participants who claimed the company mismanaged their retirement savings have agreed to end their court battle, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.

  • September 24, 2025

    PeopleFacts To Pay $2.4M In Background Check Settlement

    PeopleFacts has agreed to pay $2.4 million to job seekers whose criminal history was shared with employers without a notice required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, according to a motion filed in Michigan federal court.

  • September 24, 2025

    Rikers Detainees File Class Action Over Solitary Confinement

    A group of detainees are accusing the New York City Department of Correction of systematically violating the state's landmark law restricting solitary confinement, saying in a state court in a proposed class complaint they have been locked in their cells for up to 24 hours a day at Rikers Island despite the ban, a lawyer told Law360 on Wednesday.

  • September 24, 2025

    PNC Failed To Protect 740K Users' Data In Breach, Suit Claims

    A proposed class action filed in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday claims PNC Financial Services suffered a data breach affecting 740,000 customers and should be held liable for not protecting their personal information.

  • September 24, 2025

    Lender Must Face Class Claims It Ignored 'Do Not Call' Asks

    A mortgage lender must face class allegations that it called people without their consent to market its loan products and continued to call people who asked it to stop, a Michigan federal judge has ruled, rejecting the lender's arguments that the proposed class is too vague.

  • September 24, 2025

    Judge Preserves H-2A Worker Claims Against NC Farm

    A North Carolina federal judge said the owners of Lee and Sons Farms must face a collective action brought by migrant farmworkers and certified several classes of workers alleging breach of contract and wage law violations.

  • September 23, 2025

    UC Researchers Win Expanded Injunction Against Grant Cuts

    A California federal judge Monday issued another preliminary injunction ordering the Trump administration to reinstate grants awarded to University of California researchers, this time resurrecting grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Institutes of Health.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.

  • Maximizing Employer Defenses After Calif. Meal Waiver Ruling

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    A California state appeals court's recent decision in Bradsbery v. Vicar Operating, finding that revocable meal period waivers prospectively signed by employees are enforceable, offers employers four steps to proactively reduce their exposure to meal period claims and bolster their defenses in a potential lawsuit, say attorneys at Fisher Phillips.

  • Charging A Separate Tariff Fee May Backfire For Retailers

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    In the wake of the Trump administration's newly imposed tariffs, retailers facing significant supply chain cost increases may be considering adding a tariff fee to offset these costs, but doing so risks violating state drip pricing bans, say attorneys at Benesch.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law

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    Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.

  • A Look At Probabilistic Tracing After High Court's Slack Ruling

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    Recent decisions following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Slack v. Pirani have increased the difficulty of pleading Securities Act claims for securities issued in direct listings by rejecting the use of statistical probabilities to establish that share purchases were traceable to a challenged registration statement, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: April Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four federal appellate court decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving pretrial detainee bail funds, employment law, product defect allegations and claims of not providing proper pain medication at a jail.

  • Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals

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    If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.

  • Series

    Playing Football Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    While my football career ended over 15 years ago, the lessons the sport taught me about grit, accountability and resilience have stayed with me and will continue to help me succeed as an attorney, says Bert McBride at Trenam.

  • Opinion

    It's Time To Reform Mass Arbitration

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    A number of recent lawsuits demonstrate how problematic practices in mass arbitration can undermine its ability to function as a tool for fair and efficient dispute resolution — so reforms including early case filtering, stronger verification requirements and new fee structures are needed to restore the arbitration system's integrity, says Kennen Hagen at FedArb.

  • 10 Arbitrations And A 5th Circ. Ruling Flag Arb. Clause Risks

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    The ongoing arbitral saga of Sullivan v. Feldman, which has engendered proceedings before 10 different arbitrators in Texas and Louisiana along with last month's Fifth Circuit opinion, showcases both the risks and limitations of arbitration clauses in retainer agreements for resolving attorney-client disputes, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.

  • How High Court's Cornell Decision Will Affect ERISA Suits

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Cunningham v. Cornell, characterizing prohibited transaction exemptions as affirmative defenses, sets the bar very low for initiating Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation, and will likely affect many plan sponsors with similar service agreements, says Carol Buckmann at Cohen & Buckmann.

  • Notable Q1 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

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    The first quarter of 2025 was filled with the refinement of old theories in the property and casualty space, including in vehicle valuation, time to seek appraisal and materials depreciation, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.

  • Series

    Power To The Paralegals: The Value Of Unified State Licensing

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    Texas' proposal to become the latest state to license paraprofessional providers of limited legal services could help firms expand their reach and improve access to justice, but consumers, attorneys and allied legal professionals would benefit even more if similar programs across the country become more uniform, says Michael Houlberg at the University of Denver.

  • AI Use In Class Actions Comes With Risks And Rewards

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    The use of artificial intelligence in class actions holds promise for helping to analyze complex evidence, but attorneys and experts must understand how to use it correctly, and how to explain it clearly, say Simone Jones and Eric Mattson at Sidley and Anna Shakotko at Cornerstone Research.

  • 10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master

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    As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.

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