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July 31, 2026
Parents of four children who died by suicide after heavy use of social media platforms are suing Meta, Google, TikTok and others in Delaware state court alleging that they pushed features that promoted self-harm and stole their loved ones' childhoods.
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July 31, 2026
A Washington federal court has paused a proposed class action from gamers seeking nearly $21 million in arbitration fees from Valve as the company appeals an order in another case declining to stop arbitrations against it.
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July 31, 2026
A Washington federal judge has partly revived a family therapist's constitutional challenge of the state's prohibition on a practice commonly known as conversion therapy in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's March decision finding that a similar Colorado ban amounted to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian counselor.
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July 31, 2026
Hotel booking companies Lexyl Technologies LLC and Bookonline.com LLC agreed to pay nearly $1.1 million to resolve claims from Washington's attorney general that the platforms deceptively added a "refund protection fee" to users' reservations, according to a settlement announced Friday.
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July 31, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney reactions to the Fed's decision to hold interest rates steady, the latest round of tariffs and San Francisco's attempt to reboot housing development.
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July 31, 2026
Shoppers accused Amazon on Friday of overstating the sustainability of seafood sold under its Whole Foods Market brand and others, claiming in a proposed class action that the company uses "unqualified, unsupported, and at times untrue environmental and ecological representations" to trick buyers into paying more for the products.
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July 31, 2026
A rival hotel booking website dropped its case in Washington federal court accusing Expedia of driving it out of business by using its control over Trivago to change the price comparison site's auction process for the placement of listings.
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July 31, 2026
A Canadian mining company is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling that revived Washington tribes' natural resource damages claims for alleged pollution of the Columbia River, arguing the appellate court upended an environmental cleanup statute's tradeoff between broad liability and limited remedies.
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July 31, 2026
A Goodyear worker hit the tire-maker with a proposed class action in Washington state court, alleging it denied employees required meal and rest breaks, failed to pay for off-the-clock work and used time-rounding practices that left workers underpaid.
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July 31, 2026
Elon Musk wants the Ninth Circuit to review two orders entered in a securities case in California federal court accusing him of defrauding Twitter shareholders, according to a notice of appeal.
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July 31, 2026
A Washington federal judge has denied a bid from the Trump administration to recuse himself from a case filed by a fired U.S. attorney in Seattle, saying there is no legitimate reason that he should step aside from the case.
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July 31, 2026
A Washington federal judge has thrown out a suit by the Canadian CEO of a cannabis company and two of his employees alleging they were wrongly denied entry to the U.S. because they work in the industry, saying a Court of International Trade ruling allowed the company's merchandise to enter the country, but not its employees.
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July 30, 2026
Five food nonprofits sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday over allegedly unlawful restrictions on grant funding meant to target what the Trump administration has called "radical left ideology," including on issues around diversity, gender identity and immigration.
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July 30, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel reversed a $2.5 million judgment Thursday against Hologenix CEO Seth Casden by finding a district court erred in ruling the executive is not immune from a tortious interference claim while also reversing a Lanham Act disgorgement award totaling nearly $3 million.
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July 30, 2026
A Seattle federal judge on Thursday granted Valve Corp.'s bid for a quick appeal of an order declining to halt antitrust arbitrations brought by hundreds of individual gamers, pausing the litigation for the video game developer to seek the Ninth Circuit's input on whether the arbitrations can proceed under its subscriber terms.
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July 30, 2026
The company behind Apartments.com on Wednesday said its costs are clearly disclosed and users have options for avoiding them when paying rent, in a bid to have a Washington federal judge throw out a proposed class action accusing it of charging "junk fees."
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July 30, 2026
Split Seventh Circuit and Ninth Circuit panels ruled Thursday that noncitizens arrested in the interior U.S. cannot be detained without bond, joining four other circuits that have rejected the Trump administration's policy of subjecting these noncitizens to mandatory detention.
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July 30, 2026
Albertsons and Safeway can't dodge 14 years' worth of claims in Washington state's lawsuit accusing the grocery stores' pharmacies of irresponsibly dispensing prescription opioids and fueling the state's overdose crisis, according to a Seattle judge's ruling Wednesday striking the companies' statute-of-limitations defense.
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July 30, 2026
The Washington State Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling Thursday that Washington State University had a duty to protect a student who died of alcohol poisoning following a hazing ritual at an off-campus party, including by taking steps to ensure fraternities were following rules against alcohol misuse and hazing.
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July 30, 2026
Renters in sprawling multidistrict litigation that reached nearly $360 million in preliminary settlements with building owners over their alleged use of RealPage's software to inflate rents asked a Tennessee federal judge to approve $119.9 million in attorney fees, saying they've expended over 100,000 hours on the case.
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July 30, 2026
A Chubb unit urged a Washington federal court to toss Costco's suit seeking coverage for a personal injury action under a home décor brand's policy, saying the retailer failed to state a claim for additional insured coverage because the underlying injuries are not related to the brand's products.
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July 30, 2026
A split Ninth Circuit panel refused Thursday to force individual arbitration of a former asset management company worker's proposed class action alleging 401(k) self-dealing, ruling that an arbitration provision in retirement plan documents was unenforceable because it sought to nullify rights guaranteed by federal benefits law.
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July 30, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge late Wednesday declined to block the government from requiring medically frail Medicaid recipients to prove they are significantly impaired to avoid a new requirement that they engage in 80 hours of work or volunteering per month or attend school part-time.
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July 29, 2026
Albertsons pharmacists in Washington state repeatedly warned supervisors that busy workloads and limited staffing were making it difficult to review prescriptions before filling them, a state judge in Seattle heard Monday, during a bench trial in Washington's case accusing Albertsons and its Safeway subsidiary of fueling the state's opioid crisis.
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July 29, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court's finding that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP can't be held liable in a battle over a stock transfer agreement gone awry, ruling that California law does allow a party to the transfer to pursue equitable indemnity in the case.