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August 20, 2026
ATLANTA — After considering two questions certified from a federal court in Georgia, the Georgia Supreme Court determined that exposure to a toxic substance without a present physical injury does not foreclose equitable relief, which instead turns on whether the plaintiff suffered any “legally cognizable injury” and the absence of an adequate remedy at law; however, the state high court did not rule on how this principle applied to the underlying conflict involving a toxic plume released from a chemical plant.
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August 20, 2026
ATLANTA — Saying in part that “some of the most objectively imprudent investments will lack an apples-to-apples comparison precisely because they are such objectively bad fiduciary decisions,” the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals revived an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action focused on target-date funds (TDFs) that are proprietary to the investment manager of the retirement plan at issue.
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August 19, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Following a hearing, a California judge granted final approval of a $7.4 million class settlement to resolve a long-running suit alleging that Trader Joe’s Co. violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) by printing out receipts that revealed 10 digits of its customers’ debit and credit card numbers.
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August 19, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A group of California homeowners filed a second amended complaint (SAC) in a California state court, narrowing their claims against a collection of insurers to Cartwright Act and unfair competition law (UCL) claims alleging that the insurers conspired to restrict conventional homeowners coverage and force policyholders into the California FAIR Plan, following an order that overruled the insurers’ joint demurrer to those claims but sustained with leave to amend some defendant-specific demurrers.
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August 18, 2026
NEW YORK — The plaintiffs in a consolidated action against the operators of an AI-powered marketing and consumer data platform told a New York federal judge that they intend to seek reconsideration of a ruling that dismissed their complaint; in that ruling, the judge held that the plaintiffs lacked standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution because they failed to plausibly allege a concrete injury from the operators’ alleged collection and monetization of their email addresses, device information and browser information.
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August 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 17 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. government’s motion for leave to participate in oral argument and for divided argument in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case that the court is scheduled to hear Oct. 6; the government is among the amici curiae urging affirmance that a putative class suit challenging purportedly underperforming retirement plan investments in hedge funds and private equity was correctly dismissed for failure to allege a “meaningful benchmark.”
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August 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — United Airlines Inc. filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to consider Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23’s commonality and predominance requirements in a class case by workers who accuse the airline of discrimination by failing to provide religious and medical accommodations from the COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
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August 14, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Consumers who sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. alleging that benzoyl peroxide (BPO) acne products contained or could degrade into benzene should be allowed to proceed with most of their claims, according to findings and recommendations issued Aug. 13 by a California federal magistrate judge, although he said the named plaintiffs lack standing to sue over products they did not purchase and that a “Walgreens Pharmacist Recommended” label is nonactionable puffery.
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August 14, 2026
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Partly granting a request to compel production of insurance-related documents in a class action that concerns the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), an Illinois federal judge ruled after in camera review that some of the documents “are not subject to any privilege” and must be produced but others “need not be produced” because they are not relevant.
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August 13, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — One of several agricultural companies accused of contributing to the contamination of groundwater in the Lower Umatilla Basin in alleged violation of state law and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) has reached a $6.2 million settlement in a class action with a group of nearby residents that awaits approval by an Oregon federal judge.
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August 13, 2026
SEATTLE — In a response to a recently filed second amended putative class complaint brought by customers who contend that Amazon.com Inc. is liable for damages and fraudulent concealment in relation to rice that they bought that contained arsenic and other heavy metals, Amazon expressly denied the allegations and argued that it had no duty to disclose the presence of heavy metals in its rice products.
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August 13, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge granted final approval to a $325,000 cash settlement to resolve seven claims brought on behalf of a nationwide class by an individual victim of a data breach through which thousands of individuals’ personally identifying information (PII) held by a financial services firm was disclosed.
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August 13, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A more than decade-long class case against Grubhub Inc. and Grubhub Holdings Inc. (together, Grubhub) by drivers who alleged that they were unlawfully classified as independent contractors was settled for $24.75 million, according to an order by a federal judge in California granting final settlement approval and partially granting a motion for attorney fees and costs.
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August 13, 2026
CHICAGO — Homebuyers who sued a real estate broker trade association and three real estate franchisors for allegedly conspiring over commission rates have reached class settlements with two of the franchisors for a total of $28.5 million, according to orders of settlement filed in a federal court in Illinois.
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August 12, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge in California on Aug. 11 sent to arbitration damages claims under the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) and false advertising law (FAL) that remained following a summary judgment ruling in a putative class action brought by consumers seeking injunctive relief or restitution related to StubHub Inc.’s refund policy changes implemented for events canceled or rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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August 12, 2026
BALTIMORE — A woman who received compensation through Purdue Pharma LP's nationwide opioid settlement filed a putative class action in a Maryland federal court accusing the law firm that represented her of improperly withholding excessive amounts for medical liens in violation of the settlement agreement.
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August 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor will rescind its May 2025 “phased pause in contractor-operated Job Corps centers nationwide” and all termination notices and will pay $50,000 for the attorney fees of Job Corps center students who filed a putative class complaint challenging the closures, according to a stipulation and order of settlement and dismissal signed by a federal judge in the District of Columbia on Aug. 11.
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August 12, 2026
SEATTLE — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a trial court’s September 2025 summary judgment ruling directing the federal government treat a class of detained aliens already within the United States during their removal proceedings as detained pursuant to Section 1226 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which allows for release on bond, rather than Section 1225(b)(2)(A), which requires mandatory detention, and which the federal government began in 2022 applying to aliens on either side of the United States border.
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August 12, 2026
SEATTLE — A plaintiff filed a class action complaint in a federal court in Washington, alleging that Amazon sells and markets Orgain Organic Protein Powder on its website as “high quality, clean, and nutritious” but failed to disclose to consumers the presence or risk of heavy metals in the product.
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August 12, 2026
SEATTLE — A woman filed a putative nationwide class action complaint in a Washington federal court against a drugmaker, seeking to represent a class of consumers who purchased a generic drug used to treat high blood pressure and other heart-related disorders that was allegedly unsafe and not therapeutically equivalent to the brand name drug.
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August 12, 2026
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge granted final approval of a settlement to resolve a data privacy class action arising from a 2024 cyberattack, in which a public sector union will pay up to $2.5 million for claims, credit monitoring, settlement administration, attorney fees and service awards.
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August 11, 2026
DENVER — The “chaos” that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) says has been created by a preliminary injunction entered in a putative class action by student-athletes suing over a June 2026 new eligibility rule is self-made, a federal judge in Colorado ruled Aug. 10, denying the NCAA’s motion to stay the injunctive relief pending appeal.
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August 11, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia casino owners accused of failing to protect employees’ and customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) following a ransomware attack have been plausibly accused of negligence but haven’t been shown to be liable for the data breach, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled, largely granting the owners’ motion to dismiss the putative class complaint.
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August 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Two consumers claim in a putative class complaint against Mercedes-Benz USA LLC (MBUSA) that the company violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by failing to warn them that the “raised metallic logo” badge on the driver’s and passenger’s seats of their Mercedes vehicles can become overheated due to sunlight exposure, allegedly causing them both to experience painful burns.
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August 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Staying a plaintiff’s appeal of a lower federal court’s grant of the defendants’ motion to compel arbitration in a putative class action alleging breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals asked the Nevada Supreme Court to determine how unilateral modification provisions in consumer agreements affect the agreements’ arbitration clauses.