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July 07, 2026
CHICAGO — The manufacturer of a hyaluronic acid (HA) filler injection failed to warn consumers of the risk of developing hard masses called granulomas, “hard lumps that appear lighter or darker than the surrounding skin and can be exceedingly painful to touch,” a woman alleges in a putative class action complaint filed in an Illinois federal court.
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July 06, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on July 2 granted in part class certification and a motion for a preliminary injunction in a putative class action against the U.S. Department of Justice and a California children’s hospital seeking to stop the DOJ from obtaining patient records related to gender-affirming care as evidence of purported violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), finding that provisional class certification and injunction apply to a specific subclass because the plaintiffs failed to establish the commonality and typicality requirements under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the statewide class.
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July 06, 2026
MILWAUKEE — A 315-acre Mount Pleasant, Wis., data center owned and operated by Microsoft Corp. currently uses “the energy demand of a medium-sized city” and is damaging nearby properties due to its “unreasonable” noise, three Sturtevant, Wis., residents allege in a class complaint filed in a federal court in their state.
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July 06, 2026
ATLANTA — A Georgia federal judge on July 2 granted preliminary approval to a $47.75 million deal that would resolve a long-running suit over lump-sum payments from terminated “top hat” plans that provided life annuities for NCR Corp. executives; the executives said that under the deal, the average gross settlement for 189 members of an opt-out settlement class would exceed $252,000.
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July 06, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted rehearing en banc and vacated an April divided panel opinion that granted a writ of mandamus sought by federal government parties in a class case over the deportation of Venezuelan men and directed the trial court, which had issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring the removal of any of the men, to terminate criminal contempt proceedings related to the transfer of the men to a megaprison in El Salvador referred to as CECOT.
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July 02, 2026
NEW YORK — Resolving an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case squarely focused on using forfeited nonvested matching retirement funds to reduce company contributions, a New York federal judge issued two July 1 orders granting final approval of a $9.6 million class settlement and awarding attorney fees totaling $3.2 million, also granting the nine class representatives $5,000 each for case contribution awards.
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July 01, 2026
ST. LOUIS — In a June 30 judgment issued without substantive explanation, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition to allow an interlocutory challenge to certification of three opt-out classes and one mandatory class in a case that is part of a wave of Employee Retirement Income Security Act challenges to health plan tobacco surcharges.
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July 01, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — In a June 30 joint notice that was filed just over a week before a bench trial was scheduled to begin, parties in a long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action over severance benefits told a California federal court “that they have reached agreement on all terms of their proposed class action settlement and expect to have a fully executed Memorandum of Understanding within the next few days.”
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July 01, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey granted final approval of an $8.5 million settlement by FedEx Ground Package System Inc. to end a class complaint alleging the shipper violated New Jersey wage law by failing to pay hourly warehouse workers for actions they were required to undertake before and after their shifts.
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July 01, 2026
SAN DIEGO — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other defendants in a long-running immigration separation class case that dates back to President Donald J. Trump’s first term were ordered by a federal judge in California to release five class members and two qualifying additional family members (QAFMs) pursuant to a 2023 settlement agreement.
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June 30, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — In a June 29 order without substantive explanation, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed to allow an interlocutory appeal concerning certification of an opt-out class in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case where the initial certification of a mandatory class was vacated under the appellate court’s recent Trauernicht v. Genworth Fin. Inc. ruling.
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June 30, 2026
ST. LOUIS — Affirming dismissal of a putative class unjust enrichment suit concerning allegations that a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) violated Arkansas law, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 29 ruled in part that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts geographic coverage requirements imposed by regulations implementing the law’s network adequacy provision.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a majority opinion that outlined the extensive history of citizenship in the United States, a divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 ruled that children born to parents who are “unlawfully or temporarily present in the United States . . . are citizens at birth” under the U.S. Constitution.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump and other federal government parties preliminarily enjoined from enforcing the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) February 2026 near-total ban on gender-affirming care and ordered to reinstate the gender-affirming care provided to prisoners “immediately prior to the issuance of” a January 2025 executive order (EO) failed to show that they are entitled to a stay pending appeal, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A California attorney and class member who objected to the settlement of a lawsuit that accused The New York Times Co. of engaging in an illegal “automatic renewal” scheme petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking review of class representative payments.
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June 30, 2026
CHICAGO — The Class Action Fairness Act’s (CAFA) mass action local event or occurrence exception is jurisdictional and applies in a lawsuit over a weeklong industrial facility fire in Richmond, Ind., as “the fire is ‘an event or occurrence’ from which all claims in the action arose,” a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, addressing a question it said was one of first impression and finding that the trial court did not err by raising the question of the mass action exception sua sponte.
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June 29, 2026
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A putative class complaint alleging that the brand “Canada Dry” misleads consumers to believe that the soda is made in Canada was dismissed without leave to amend by a federal judge in New York, who ruled that the plaintiff failed to plausibly allege that an import-related or other premium for the product exists.
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June 29, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California certified two classes of noncitizens in a case brought by individuals who were arrested at a courthouse and/or detained more than 12 hours by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and vacated the ICE and Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) policies that permitted those challenged actions to occur.
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June 26, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted music-streaming service Spotify USA Inc.’s motion to dismiss a putative class action brought against it by a rapper who accused the company of negligence and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) for failing to prevent artificial streaming of artists’ music, which the plaintiff said included billions of streams by bots of music by musician Drake and allegedly reduced the revenue pool open to competing musicians such as himself.
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June 26, 2026
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower federal court’s denial of a plaintiff’s request for class certification in his lawsuit seeking to hold an insurer liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act but reversed the court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the plaintiff, holding that he failed to demonstrate that the insurer is vicariously liable for a telemarketer’s calls under any theory of agency law.
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June 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Individuals from Haiti and Syria who filed putative class complaints challenging the termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for noncitizens from their countries are not “entitled to orders postponing the terminations during litigation” as “[t]he TPS statute plainly bars consideration of the respondents’ non-constitutional claims” and the lone “constitutional claim before us will likely fail,” the U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled June 25 in two consolidated cases.
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June 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A noncitizen is not considered to have “arriv[ed] in the United States” under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) unless he or she is over the border in the United States, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 in a class case over a now-rescinded border metering policy.
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June 25, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted in part and denied in part an online pharmacy’s motion to dismiss claims under the federal Wiretap Act and denied its motion to dismiss claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in a putative class action alleging that the pharmacy configured and deployed Facebook’s pixel on its website and mobile application to facilitate the interception of users’ personal and health information by Meta Platforms Inc. without consent, refusing to dismiss either claim on the basis of consent to the extent the claim concerns the purported unlawful interception of personal health information.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A media and entertainment company argues in a June 23 respondent brief that the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ judgment that a California man is not a “‘consumer’” under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) because he subscribed only to a free newsletter, not to audiovisual goods or services from a videotape service provider and because the man’s contrary reading of the VPPA’s definition of “‘consumer’” would transform a targeted video-rental privacy statute into an internet-privacy law backed by statutory and punitive damages.
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June 24, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge denied PayPal Inc.’s motion to dismiss an amended putative class action brought against it by YouTubers and other online content creators after finding that they plausibly accuse it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by using a discount-finding browser extension, “Honey,” to redirect profits from their affiliate links and coupons to itself.