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July 14, 2026
The Fifth Circuit unraveled a Texas court's judgment against BP that held the oil giant was liable to company retirees for miscommunicating their pension benefits' value following a plan conversion, holding on Tuesday that the lower court didn't perform a rigorous enough standing analysis.
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July 14, 2026
News organizations suing artificial intelligence companies for allegedly infringing their copyrighted content for AI training must show that chatbots are using the organizations' prose as opposed to merely uncopyrightable facts, or that the practice is diluting the market for human-made journalism, experts told Law360.
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July 14, 2026
A group of tennis players have accused Bentley University of luring them to play Division II tennis at the school with false assurances that the program was viable, only to later announce it would be terminated after the 2026 spring semester.
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July 14, 2026
An auto parts maker and factory workers filed competing bids for early wins in parallel federal wage suits, with the workers alleging willful pay-shaving practices and the manufacturer arguing that the disputed minutes were too trivial to compensate, according to filings in North Carolina federal court.
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July 14, 2026
Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow have lodged a copyright infringement suit alleging Google used their works to train its artificial intelligence model Gemini following an earlier suit they launched against Meta.
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July 14, 2026
A North Carolina city asked a federal court to dismantle a collective action brought by police officers alleging they were not properly compensated for preshift and postshift work, arguing the officers' claims are too individualized to proceed as a group.
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July 14, 2026
In one of the most-watched races for the five Washington State Supreme Court seats on the ballot this election season, a state appellate judge and a Seattle-area superior court judge are competing to succeed the high court's longest-sitting justice.
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July 13, 2026
Asset manager BlackRock Inc.'s accounting practices artificially inflated the values of more than 70 of its mutual funds, saddling investors with higher management fees and cutting into the dividends they might have collected, according to a proposed class action lodged Monday in New York state court.
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July 13, 2026
The Seventh Circuit has vacated a novel biometric privacy settlement between Clearview AI and classes of individuals who claim the company misused their public photos, saying a nationwide class representative should have signaled their agreement before the district court approved a deal containing such comparatively "meager" benefits.
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July 13, 2026
U.S. District Judge James Donato has already told Epic and Google that he's "not going to keep" going back and forth with them about changes they want to an injunction he has to issue following Epic's antitrust trial win against Google, and now a court-appointed expert has informed him she has issues with the proposed changes as well.
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July 13, 2026
A chain of marijuana dispensaries operating under the Catalyst brand has agreed to pay $300,000 in order to end claims it denied overtime pay, meal breaks and cellphone reimbursements to thousands of workers, with a Los Angeles County court giving its blessing to the settlement Friday.
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July 13, 2026
A putative class alleging loan servicer Selene Finance LP sent false and deceptive notices regarding loan defaults has asked a North Carolina federal judge to certify two classes, claiming all the letters Selene sent are "false in the same way."
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July 13, 2026
Investors suing cannabis company Parallel urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday to deny motions to dismiss their derivative suit, arguing that directors compromised their independence by granting themselves sweeping liability releases, while defense counsel countered that the releases provided no meaningful benefit beyond existing charter protections.
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July 13, 2026
A staffing company accused of failing to provide laborers with required employment notices and assignment-related disclosures in violation of Illinois law said it is entitled to a defense under its commercial lines policies, telling a federal court that its insurer wrongfully refused coverage for the proposed class action.
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July 13, 2026
The Seventh Circuit refused Monday to revive a lawsuit alleging Infosys Technologies exhibited systemic bias against workers who weren't of South Asian descent, finding no issue with the trial court's rejection of an expert who admitted he lacked experience with the name-recognition methodology he used.
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July 13, 2026
Fiat Chrysler has defeated a proposed class action accusing it of failing to extend warranties to account for time spent in service centers for covered repairs, after a Detroit federal judge on Monday said the drivers failed to show they suffered any financial injury.
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July 13, 2026
A California federal judge dismissed a proposed class action accusing Blue Shield of California of violating the federal Wiretap Act by installing Google and Meta tracking tools on its website, saying plaintiffs failed to allege that the health plan provider intercepted their highly sensitive health-related electronic communications.
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July 13, 2026
An Ohio federal judge on Monday ordered state officials to stop enforcing a new law that reclassified hemp products as marijuana, although the order's scope is limited to the products manufactured and sold by the hemp interests that challenged the policy.
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July 13, 2026
Hyundai has urged a California federal judge to send a proposed class action over its allegedly faulty automatic emergency braking system into arbitration, arguing that the drivers accepted an arbitration provision when they agreed to the terms and conditions of its Bluelink services to obtain optional integrated connectivity features.
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July 13, 2026
Owners and operators of a Colorado apartment complex did not maintain safe and habitable living conditions for tenants, declining for years to remedy a "horrific" cockroach infestation and charging tenants inflated undisclosed fees, former tenants alleged in a proposed class action filed in state court Monday.
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July 13, 2026
A group of Republican-led states is calling on the D.C. Circuit to stay a lower court decision vacating the Trump administration's changes to a database used to verify voters' citizenship or immigration statuses, saying that a number of state laws cannot be executed if Social Security number searches are not allowed.
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July 13, 2026
A North Carolina resident accusing Capital One's data processor Fidelity National Information Services of failing to prevent a power outage that prevented her and others from accessing funds has asked a district court for permission to file a bolstered version of her class claims following their dismissal without prejudice.
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July 13, 2026
Johnson & Johnson has asked the Third Circuit to keep dismissed excessive fee claims out of a proposed class action alleging the company charged employees too much for a prescription drug benefits program, arguing that the lower court correctly tossed that portion of the suit for lack of standing.
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July 13, 2026
CVS customers hit the pharmacy retail giant with a proposed false advertising class action in California federal court alleging that its "Ultra-Soft Toddler Cleansing Wipes" are deceptively labeled as being hypoallergenic, since they are formulated with added fragrance, a cosmetic allergen that serves no functional skin care purpose.
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July 13, 2026
A fitness franchise associated with the actor Mark Wahlberg has agreed to pay $10.5 million to exit a class action accusing it of misleading investors about its growth potential ahead of its initial public offering, according to papers filed in a Texas federal court.