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July 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 27 granted a stay of mandate pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari by the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal government parties in a class case challenging a January 2025 presidential proclamation that limited asylum and withholding of removal applications.
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July 28, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Five days after the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss an appeal filed by R.C. Bigelow Inc. following a jury verdict in favor of a class of consumers in a case about tea labeling, the consumers and tea company on July 27 filed a joint notice of settlement in the trial court.
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July 28, 2026
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals refused to reconsider its ruling affirming 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 (TCPA) and reversing the court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the plaintiff after holding that he failed to demonstrate that the insurer is vicariously liable for a telemarketer’s calls.
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July 28, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A nonprofit legal foundation on July 28 filed a motion in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for leave to file an amicus curiae brief in which it urges the court to reverse a federal judge’s order certifying several classes of purchasers bringing antitrust claims against Juul Labs Inc. (JLI), Altria Group Inc. and former JLI board members for allegedly seeking to monopolize the e-cigarette market, writing that the ruling would allow California law to be used as “a roving nationwide antitrust enforcer.”
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July 28, 2026
PITTSBURGH — Deepening the conflicting case law in a series of putative class actions challenging pension risk transfers (PRTs) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a Pennsylvania federal judge on July 27 dismissed one such case for lack of standing, saying in part that the retirees “haven’t plausibly alleged that there is a significant likelihood Athene would default to a degree that their pensions would be affected.”
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July 28, 2026
NEW YORK — The newest tariffs of 10% or 12.5% on goods being imported into the United States must be declared invalid just like the 2025 tariffs that were imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and were declared invalid by the U.S. Supreme Court in Learning Res., Inc. v. Trump and the tariffs that replaced them, a New York business and a California business allege in a putative class complaint filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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July 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in the District of Columbia on July 27 denied a request by unaccompanied alien children from Guatemala to order the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and others to show cause why they should not be held in civil contempt for allegedly violating a preliminary injunction that halted the removal of the minors from the United States.
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July 28, 2026
ST. LOUIS — After each party had filed a brief in the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concerning an attempt to revive a putative class Employee Retirement Income Security Act mortality table case, the appellants moved for voluntary dismissal of the appeal with prejudice and the appellate court granted the motion after the appellees reported that they did not object to the motion.
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July 27, 2026
GREENBELT, Md. — An Asian American man who worked as a Maryland state police officer for more than a decade filed an intervenor class complaint in a federal court in Maryland against the state alleging intentional discrimination against officers of color, a hostile work environment and retaliation.
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July 27, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge dismissed with leave to amend a visually impaired consumer’s putative class action alleging that a website selling men’s grooming products violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) by failing to make the site accessible to visually impaired persons, finding that the consumer failed to establish standing to seek prospective relief under the ADA because he did not sufficiently allege an intention to return after visiting the website only once.
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July 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a July 23 one-sentence per curiam order denied a petition for rehearing en banc filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary and other federal government parties after a split panel ruled in April that a proclamation issued by President Donald J. Trump on the day of his inauguration that limited asylum and withholding of removal applications and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) guidance that followed are “unlawful to the extent that they circumvent the INA’s [Immigration and Nationality Act’s] removal procedures and cast aside federal laws affording individuals the right to apply and be considered for asylum or withholding of removal protections.”
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July 23, 2026
NEW YORK — Making the same key arguments it did in January in a similar interlocutory appeal, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a ruling that retirees had standing to file a putative class lawsuit that is part of a much-watched string of pension risk transfer (PRT) challenges; among other things, the retirees generally allege that the use of offshore captive reinsurers makes the insurers now responsible for paying their annuities more likely to fall short of their obligations.
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July 23, 2026
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois granted a motion by the owner and operator of a casino and sweepstakes gaming website to compel a plaintiff seeking to represent a class of Illinois website customers to arbitrate individually her claims regarding the alleged operation of an illegal online casino the under the company’s “Terms of Use” for its website’s “social casino.”
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July 23, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on July 22 granted an oil-well interest class an extra month to respond to a petition by Sunoco Inc. and Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. (together, Sunoco) that asks the high court to decide whether a court is permitted under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 or Article III of the U.S. Constitution to certify a class and award damages in a case where ascertainability has never been satisfied.
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July 23, 2026
ST. LOUIS — After 41 states and the District of Columbia (the governmental entities) filed proofs of claim seeking nearly $100 billion in damages arising from the 2023 23andMe Inc. data breach, the trust administering the company’s bankruptcy plan asked a Missouri federal bankruptcy court to issue an order permitting entry into a stipulation that would provide the governmental entities with individual shares of an $18 million settlement.
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July 23, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ruling that users of three Google LLC services failed to show an injury arising from an allegation that the company activated its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) bot without their knowledge or consent, a California federal judge dismissed their amended class action complaint with leave to amend.
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July 22, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 21 vacated the certification of a class of third-party payers (TPPs) who paid for prescriptions for Avandia after finding that the statistical evidence presented in the district court to prove that alleged fraud by GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) caused them to pay more for diabetes drug showed proof of correlation but failed to meet the appropriate causation standard.
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July 22, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — In an insured’s dispute with his lender over its alleged failure to endorse settlement checks as an additional payee in a hurricane coverage dispute involving a now-insolvent insurer, the insured on July 21 filed a brief in Louisiana federal court opposing the lender’s renewed motion to dismiss and request for reconsideration of a previous ruling in a putative class suit, asserting that the lender incorrectly maintains that the insured did not incur an injury.
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July 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied a motion by the U.S. Department of Education to modify a loan discharge settlement agreement that was granted final approval in 2022 and did not err when it allowed a postclass applicant group to receive relief under the agreement, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled.
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July 21, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two consumers filed a nationwide putative class complaint in California federal court accusing an agriculture and produce company worth $8 billion of liability for the “entirely avoidable” contamination of shredded lettuce and leafy greens distributed nationwide with cyclospora, accusing it of negligence, violation of California and New York consumer protection laws and other claims.
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July 21, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — Saying they would receive more than $9,531,455 and class counsel would separately get $3.5 million, a 220-member class of former Atmel Corp. employees asked a California federal court for preliminary approval of a settlement that would resolve their nearly decade-old Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit over severance benefits.
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July 21, 2026
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri gun owner lacks standing to sue over a pistol’s alleged defective features that can cause it to be inadvertently discharged because he admitted he has never experienced that or any other issues, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, vacating a trial court’s class certification order and remanding with instructions to dismiss the case.
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July 21, 2026
CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated and remanded a settlement of claims brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) against the creator and curator of a massive digital photo database after agreeing with two objectors that the nationwide class members lacked a separate representative and counsel to protect their interests when settlement funds were allocated in greater shares to four state subclasses.
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July 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite objections, a California federal judge granted final approval in consolidated litigation to a $47.5 million class action settlement between eight named plaintiffs and a health plan that resolves claims brought after the health plan was accused of installing third-party trackers on its website and mobile apps to capture user information.
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July 20, 2026
CHICAGO — Affirming judgment against a class of employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) participants who challenged a $265 million deal, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 17 explained that it found no clear error in the ruling that followed a 14-day bench trial.