Amazon To Pay $309M, Change Practices Over Return Policy

By Lauren Berg

Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to pay $309 million on top of $570 million already paid out to customers to resolve a proposed class action accusing the e-commerce giant of shortchanging customers on refunds for returned items, according to the customers asking a Washington federal judge to approve the settlement.

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Google Reaches $68M Deal Over Recording Users

By Corey Rothauser

Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. have asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve a $68 million class action settlement that would resolve long-running claims that Google Assistant-enabled devices recorded users' conversations without consent.

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Social Media Cos. Fight Uphill To End Schools' Addiction MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared skeptical Monday about dismissing school districts' claims that social media companies harmed them by getting their students addicted to their platforms, telling defense counsel that the case poses "classic" factual disputes for a jury, and setting the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation for June 15.

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Supreme Court To Define 'Consumer' Under Privacy Law

By Allison Grande

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider what criteria consumers need to meet in order to sue under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, accepting a challenge to a ruling that said a Paramount digital newsletter subscriber could not bring a lawsuit.

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Whole Foods $2M ERISA Deal OK'd, Class Counsel Get $666K

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge signed off on a $2 million settlement between Austin-based Whole Foods and its employees, resolving a class action in which the company was accused of mismanaging employee 401(k) accounts by failing to negotiate for lower administrative fees.

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Duke Gets Final Approval For $2.35M Mortality Data Deal

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina federal judge on Monday gave her final seal of approval to a $2.35 million settlement ending claims that Duke University shorted former employees by millions of dollars by using decades-old mortality tables to calculate retirement benefits.

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Geico Pays $900K Settlement To End Call Center OT Suits

By Irene Spezzamonte

Geico will pay $900,000 to settle several suits, all accusing the insurance company of not paying call center workers for preshift and postshift work, after a Georgia federal judge gave the deal final approval.

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Pet Treat Maker Will Pay $975K To End Donning, Doffing Row

By Benjamin Morse

A pet product manufacturer has agreed to pay $975,000 to resolve a proposed class and collective action alleging the company failed to pay its employees for the time they spent putting on and removing personal protective equipment, according to settlement papers filed in Colorado federal court.

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Colo. Staffing Co. Must Face Nurses' Strike Pay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A staffing company cannot escape a lawsuit that nearly 40 nurses brought alleging they were not properly paid while temporarily working at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California during a 2023 strike, a Colorado federal magistrate judge has ruled, finding the healthcare workers sufficiently backed up their allegations.

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Pool Equipment Co. Reaches $20M Deal To End Investor Suit

By Sydney Price

Pool equipment maker Hayward Holdings Inc. has reached a nearly $20 million deal with its investors to settle claims that it failed to properly disclose its struggles with ballooning inventory and lowered demand.

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Interactive Brokers Inks $5M Deal To End Algorithm Class Suit

By Sydney Price

Online broker-dealer Interactive Brokers LLC and an investor have asked a Connecticut federal judge to give an initial nod to a $5 million deal to end decade-long class action negligence claims surrounding an allegedly faulty algorithm that liquidated short-sold securities.

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DOL Asks 3rd Circ. To Back Siemens' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit Exit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Labor Department supported Siemens Corp.'s request that the Third Circuit affirm the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging the technology company's use of millions in forfeited 401(k) funds violated federal benefits law, agreeing with a lower federal court that the allegations reached beyond ERISA's scope.

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DocuSign Beats Investor Suit Over Post-COVID Prospects

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Monday tossed a certified class of shareholders' lawsuit that accused DocuSign and its top brass of misleading investors about the software company's postpandemic growth prospects, saying an amendment would not fix the investors' "misleading and confusing" complaint.

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Beyond Meat's $77M Write-Down 'Shocked' Market, Suit Says

By Emilie Ruscoe

Meat-substitute maker Beyond Meat Inc. is facing a proposed investor class action alleging it concealed its struggles to turn a profit, hurting investors as it eventually acknowledged quarterly losses that included a $77 million write-down.

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Medtronic Investors Ask 8th Circ. To Revive Insulin Pump Suit

By Katryna Perera

Investors have asked the Eighth Circuit to revive a securities class action against medical device manufacturer Medtronic, arguing that a Minnesota federal court wrongly dismissed the case in October for failure to state a claim.

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Zenas BioPharma Slams Investor's Revamped Fraud Claim

By Carolyn Muyskens

Zenas BioPharma has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a putative investor class action targeting pre-initial public offering statements about the company's spending, saying it didn't hide that it had ramped up investment in research and development.

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Google Targets Publishers' Ad Tech Claims

By Bryan Koenig

Google asked a New York federal judge to cut out a wide swath of antitrust claims from multidistrict litigation targeting its advertising placement technology dominance, assailing in separate briefs allegations from a class of website publishers and from the Daily Mail and Gannett.

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Novo Nordisk Faces Class Claims Over GLP-1 Patent Tactics

By Elliot Weld

A South Carolina drug company has launched a proposed class action against major pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, alleging it engaged in anticompetitive behavior to prolong its monopoly against generic competition for the GLP-1 drug Victoza.

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Justices Urged To Keep Baseball's Antitrust Shield In Play

By Hailey Konnath

Puerto Rico's professional baseball league on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to disturb the sport's century-old exemption from antitrust law, arguing that the justices have rejected similar challenges to the shield time and time again.

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Fubo Subscribers Defend Streaming Rate Suit Against Disney

By Matthew Perlman

A proposed class of Fubo subscribers is opposing a bid from Disney to force them to arbitrate their claims in an antitrust case alleging streaming services pay inflated rates to carry ESPN and other sports channels.

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Ill. Judge Trims False Ad Suit Over Abbott Formula

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge Friday dismissed several claims in a putative class action alleging Abbott Laboratories falsely advertised its toddler drinks sold under the Similac brand as nutritionally proper for children ages 12 months to 36 months, but largely allowed the parents' complaint to move forward.

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P&G Hit With Suit Over Alleged Lead In Tampax

By Emily Field

Procter & Gamble has been hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court alleging that certain Tampax Pearl tampons contain unsafe levels of lead that can directly enter the bloodstream, even though the personal care products are marketed as safe from contamination.

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RJR Owes Transplant Patient $14M Over Smoking, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A Florida jury heard in closing arguments Monday that R.J. Reynolds should pay $14 million for 14 years of pain and suffering endured by a lung transplant patient who was smoking heavily by the 1970s.

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BMW Drivers Sue Over Leaky Engine Oil Filter Housing

By Gina Kim

BMW drivers have filed a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court alleging it knowingly sold certain BMW and Mini Cooper, Clubman and Countryman vehicles from 2014 through 2021 containing faulty engine oil filter housing parts that prematurely fail while limiting the warranty period to avoid repair costs.

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Musk's AI Co. Sued Over Explicit, Nonconsensual Deepfakes

By Mike Curley

A woman is suing Elon Musk's xAI in California federal court, alleging that it not only failed to implement safeguards against users making sexually explicit deepfakes of women without their permission but has also openly advertised and monetized it as a feature.

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Federal Contractor Opexus Sued Over EEOC Data Breach

By Jared Foretek

D.C.-based government software contractor Opexus is facing a class action alleging that its negligence allowed two former employees — both of whom had been convicted for hacking previously — to copy more than 1,800 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission files onto USB drives and take the data.

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Dooney & Bourke Accused Of Misleading Email Sales Tactics

By Aaron Keller

Handbag and leather goods brand Dooney & Bourke Inc. violated a Washington State law by sending email blasts offering repeated "last chance" sales with just "hours left" for consumers to purchase advertised products, according to a lawsuit recently removed to federal court.

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Amex Seeks First Approval Of $17M Antisteering Settlement

By Katryna Perera

American Express Co. has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first green light to a $17.5 million settlement reached with consumers who claimed the credit card company's so-called antisteering rules caused non-Amex cardholders to pay higher charges, after a New York federal jury ordered Amex to pay $12 million to one class of consumers.

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Delta Customers Get Green Light For Tweaked IT Outage Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A federal judge has ruled that Delta Air Lines customers alleging their travel was disrupted by the 2024 CrowdStrike outage can pursue some claims that were previously dismissed, but blocked them from reraising others.

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3rd Circ. Finds NJ Officials Shielded From COVID Deaths Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

A proposed class action on behalf of the families of roughly 10,000 nursing home residents who died early in the COVID-19 pandemic cannot proceed against New Jersey officials over their response, the Third Circuit has ruled, finding the officials are protected through qualified immunity.

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Jocko Fuel Sued In NY Over Cadmium In Protein Shakes

By Gina Kim

Jocko Fuel misleads consumers into thinking its chocolate protein shakes are made with "just premium protein and functional ingredients" that are tested for safety, despite the fact that the shakes are at risk of containing unsafe levels of cadmium, according to a proposed class action filed Monday in New York federal court.

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10th Circ. Affirms $17M Atty Fee In Gas Well Royalty Case

By Zach Dupont

On the third go around in the Tenth Circuit, a class led by Chieftain Royalty Co. on Monday had its $17.3 million attorney fee award unanimously affirmed for a settlement resolving a gas well royalty dispute, despite objections from two class members.

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Kansas Refinery Pollutes, Violates EPA Decrees, Suit Says

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of Coffeyville, Kansas, residents on Monday sued the company behind an oil refinery and fertilizer facility, saying it has been in repeat violation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency consent decrees as it continues to pollute the environment and, thus, drive up environmental damage and cancer rates.

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Anthem Seeks Dismissal Of 'Ghost Network' Class Action

By Mark Payne

A proposed class action's allegations that Anthem Health Plans maintains inaccurate mental health directories known as ghost provider networks aren't true and are "legally deficient," the insurer and its parent company, Elevance Health Inc., argued while urging a Connecticut federal court to toss the suit.

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Generics Makers Fight Cert. In Cholesterol Drug Pricing MDL

By Gianna Ferrarin

Generic-drug makers sought to defeat a bid to certify proposed classes comprising thousands of pharmacies that indirectly purchased and resold generics at the center of sprawling price-fixing litigation, telling a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that certification would result in an "unmanageable trial."

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court wrapped up the week with a slate of high-stakes deal challenges, governance rulings and oversight decisions, including an emergency bid to block a $10.9 billion bank merger, a state Supreme Court reversal reshaping stockholder agreement litigation and a major opinion allowing sexual misconduct oversight claims to proceed.

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Judge Blocks Mass Termination Of Migrant Family Parole

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of more than 8,400 migrants who were invited to stay in the U.S. while awaiting green cards under a family reunification program.

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H-2A Truck Drivers Seek Collective Certification In OT Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Colorado company subjects all its tractor-trailer drivers to the same illegal policy of considering them overtime-exempt under federal law, a group of migrant workers said, urging a Colorado federal court to greenlight a collective.

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2 GOP Lawmakers Urge Justices To End Birthright Citizenship

By Jared Foretek

A pair of Republican lawmakers is backing President Donald Trump's push for the U.S. Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship, filing an amicus brief Friday claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment doesn't automatically grant citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil.

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9th Circ. Pauses Discovery Order In UFC Wage Suits

By Benjamin Morse

A Ninth Circuit panel temporarily paused a Nevada federal court's discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits against UFC after the mixed martial arts organization said the order violated attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment.

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2026 Int'l Arbitration Trends: Next Steps In Age Of AI, Crypto

Parties' use of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies will continue in 2026, and international arbitrators will be called upon to evolve by building expertise in blockchain functionality, cryptography and decentralized finance protocols, and understanding the power and limitations of large language models, say attorneys at Cleary.

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Adapting To Private Practice: 5 Tips From Ex-SEC Unit Chief

My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.

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Law Student Recruiting Moves Further Off Campus

By Emma Cueto

About four-fifths of law school summer associate recruiting in 2025 happened through employer-sponsored channels, as opposed to more traditional law school-sponsored channels, with recruiting also happening increasingly early, according to research unveiled Monday by the National Association for Law Placement.

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Fla. Bar Clears Gaetz Despite US House Ethics Report

By Courtney Bublé

The Florida Bar has decided to not discipline former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was briefly President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, despite the House ethics committee's findings that Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including with a minor.

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Texas Law Firm-Linked Plane Crashes In Maine With Fatalities

By Lynn LaRowe

A private plane connected to Texas-based litigation firm Arnold & Itkin LLP overturned and caught fire Sunday night as it attempted to take off from a Maine airport, killing at least six people on board, according to authorities and public records.

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Indiana Judge Was Shot Through Front Door, Cop Says

By Hailey Konnath

An Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife were shot by a man standing on their front porch, through their closed front door, according to an affidavit, which noted that the suspected shooter was connected to a man with pending charges in the judge's courtroom.

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Foley & Lardner Can't Dodge Pro-Palestinian Atty's Bias Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge on Monday denied Foley & Lardner LLP's bid for an early win against claims brought by a former summer associate who said discrimination led to the firm's decision to rescind a job offer after she publicly supported Palestinians amid Israel's war with Hamas.

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Minn. Judge Probes Limits Of ICE Enforcement Actions

By Ganesh Setty

A Minnesota federal judge on Monday considered whether to preliminarily block the Trump administration from sending thousands of immigration enforcement officers to the state, questioning if the surge is a coercive federal act in violation of state sovereignty.

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Full 3rd Circ. Passes On Alina Habba DQ Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Monday declined to reconsider its decision blocking Alina Habba from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, denying the Justice Department's petition for rehearing and leaving intact a decision that sharply curtailed the government's use of creative maneuvers to install interim federal prosecutors.

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