Class Action

  • July 07, 2025

    Little League Accused Of Ignoring Child Safety Protocols

    A group of concerned parents has filed a proposed class action in Connecticut state court against the Little League organization in Ridgefield, alleging not all of its coaches receive the required training in child safety and CPR.

  • July 07, 2025

    Biggest Illinois Decisions Of 2025 So Far: A Midyear Report

    State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases so far this year that have clarified standing for data breach actions in the state's courts, affirmed coverage for attorney fees and costs paid as part of a settlement, and deemed insufficient a jury instruction frequently given in Illinois personal injury cases. Here's a breakdown of some of the biggest decisions courts have handed down in Illinois cases so far in 2025.

  • July 07, 2025

    Lenders Accused Of Using Calif. Tribe To Dodge Usury Laws

    A California resident has accused River Valley Loans and some business leaders allegedly associated with the company — including the son of TV host Dr. Phil — of operating a predatory lending scheme involving the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe to make short-term, small-dollar loans with illegally high interest rates.

  • July 07, 2025

    Personal Injury & Med Mal Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025

    The social media addiction multidistrict litigation against the biggest tech companies and a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding state medical malpractice lawsuit requirements are among the cases injury and malpractice attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025.

  • July 07, 2025

    Etsy Shares User Data With Google And Meta For Ads, Suit Says

    Etsy flouts privacy laws by illegally sharing website visitors' information with third parties through the surreptitious use and deployment of tracking pixels created by Google, Meta, TikTok and Microsoft for behavior profiling and real-time digital ad bidding auctions, according to a proposed class action filed last week in California federal court. 

  • July 07, 2025

    As New Era Dawns For College Athletes, Repairs Still Needed

    As far back as late 2023, when a broad cross-section of former college athletes was certified as a class to sue the NCAA for unpaid name, image and likeness compensation, all parties involved have known that the eventual settlement of its claims would repair just one specific broken part of the college sports ecosystem. With the portion of the $2.78 billion settlement designed to share institutional revenues directly with athletes going into effect on Tuesday, legal experts still wonder how and when enough will be done to set right the scales that went unbalanced for decades.

  • July 07, 2025

    Chancery Won't Sink Investor Suit Against Gaming Co. Skillz

    Delaware's chancellor has rejected calls to dismiss a derivative suit accusing insiders of mobile gaming company Skillz Inc. of misleading investors about weak prospects ahead of a secondary public offering in 2021, instead ordering a summary judgment proceeding to drill down on the issue of director independence.

  • July 07, 2025

    PHH Mortgage Loan Officers Urge NJ Court To Halt Calif. Deal

    A California state court's decision to preliminarily approve a settlement in a case against PHH Mortgage would prevent California mortgage loan officers from pursuing their claims in their New Jersey federal court proceedings, two California workers told the New Jersey court.

  • July 07, 2025

    P&G Beats False Ad Suit Over 'Pure Cotton' Tampax, For Good

    The Procter & Gamble Co. permanently beat a proposed class action alleging that it omits the presence of organic fluorine in its Tampax products, after a California federal judge again rejected the plaintiff's testing method for detecting forever chemicals, ruling Monday that the latest iteration of the suit continued to rest on flawed testing.

  • July 07, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    In Delaware in the past week, a vice chancellor awarded just $1 in damages to a China-tied company looking to secure a $50 million stake in SpaceX while also slamming the fund's manager for acting "insincerely," Tyson Foods won $55 million in damages in a suit claiming the owner of two poultry rendering plants Tyson acquired hid that it relied on a "disfavored" practice of recovering "unappetizing remnants of butchered chickens," and a suit over a one-site bank's 11-aircraft fleet was moved into the discovery phase.

  • July 07, 2025

    Some Class Certs. Granted In Amazon Alexa Privacy Suit

    A Washington federal judge on Monday granted class certification to plaintiffs with registered Amazon Alexa devices in a suit alleging the devices recorded and stored their conversations, and he denied class certification to those plaintiffs who did not have registered devices.

  • July 07, 2025

    Cooper Health Data Breach Class Actions Consolidated In NJ

    A New Jersey federal judge consolidated four proposed class actions against The Cooper Health System over a May 2024 data breach they allege resulted from the failure to properly safeguard individuals' personally identifiable information and protected health information, according to a court order.

  • July 03, 2025

    BofA Beats Class Cert. Bid Over Vacation Pay, For Now

    A California federal judge Thursday refused to certify three putative classes of former Bank of America employees who accused the bank of not paying them their accrued, unused vacation time, saying a proposed class representative seemingly wasn't eligible for vacation time accrual.

  • July 03, 2025

    J.Jill Can't Compel Arbitration In False Price Discount Suit

    A California federal judge has refused to ship to arbitration a proposed class action accusing J.Jill of advertising false reference prices on products sold throughout its website, finding that the clothing retailer had failed to put the plaintiff on adequate notice that she would be bound to arbitration simply by placing an order as a guest.

  • July 03, 2025

    Stewart Drops Mixed Bag Of Discretionary Denial Rulings

    Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart has released 24 more discretionary denial decisions, more than half of which she cleared challenges to move forward through the Patent Trial and Appeal Board process.

  • July 03, 2025

    Peloton Execs Resolve NY Investor Suit Over Treadmill Risks

    A New York federal judge has approved a deal resolving derivative claims against the leadership of fitness company Peloton Interactive Inc., settling allegations of safety issues with its Tread+ treadmill by requiring governance reforms and awarding $1.75 million in attorney fees and costs.

  • July 03, 2025

    7th Circ. Cuts Chicken Price-Fixing Atty Fees Again

    A Seventh Circuit panel reduced a $51.6 million fee award for class counsel who took on alleged price-fixing among the country's biggest producers of broiler chickens to about $47 million Wednesday, saying the district court made one easily-correctable error.

  • July 03, 2025

    3 More Athletes Appeal NCAA NIL Settlement To 9th Circ.

    Two former wrestlers, including an Olympic medalist, and a former walk-on football player have joined the list of college athletes announcing plans to appeal the $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement with the NCAA, arguing that they are receiving far too small a portion of the compensation package.

  • July 03, 2025

    Plumbing Co. Seeks $25M In Coverage For ERISA Claims

    A plumbing subcontractor told a California federal court that its primary insurer was improperly limiting its coverage in an employee stock ownership plan dispute, hindering its ability to tap into its full $25 million tower of management liability coverage.

  • July 03, 2025

    Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

    It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

  • July 03, 2025

    Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals

    The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object extends to a group of men the government plans to send to South Sudan.

  • July 03, 2025

    The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.

  • July 03, 2025

    Natera Inks $8.25M Deal To End Prenatal Tests Suit

    A proposed class of buyers of Natera Inc.'s noninvasive prenatal tests has asked a California federal court to give preliminary approval to an $8.25 million settlement to resolve claims that the company knew the tests were unreliable but failed to tell buyers.

  • July 03, 2025

    TRESemme Buyers' Claims Too Tangled For Class Cert.

    A New York federal judge has denied class certification for a class of 717 buyers of Unilever's TRESemme shampoo who allege the product caused allergic reactions and hair loss, saying their claims would require too much individual inquiry for class certification to be appropriate.

  • July 03, 2025

    Illinois Cases To Watch In 2025: Midyear Report

    The impact of regulatory permits on insurance policy pollution exclusions, the debate over ditching two-step collective certifications and further interpretation of Illinois' biometric privacy law are at the heart of some of the state's biggest cases to watch through the end of the year.

Expert Analysis

  • 5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships

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    Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.

  • Notable Q4 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

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    In a continuation of trends in property and casualty insurance class actions, last quarter insurers struggled with defending the merits and class certification of sales tax and fee suits, and labor depreciation cases, but succeeded in dismissing privacy class actions at the pleading stages, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.

  • Chancery Ruling Holds Authorized Share Takeaways For Cos.

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    The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent ruling in Salama v. Simon resolved statutory ambiguity in favor of boards seeking authorized share increases, and has important implications for litigators presenting extrinsic evidence in support of contract or statutory interpretation arguments, says Robin Wechkin at Sidley.

  • How Courts Can Filter Nonmeritorious Claims In Mass Torts

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    Nonmeritorious claims have been a key obstacle to settlement in many recent high-profile mass torts, but courts may be able to use tools they already have to solve this problem, says Samir Parikh at Wake Forest University.

  • Series

    Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.

  • Bill Would Bring Welcome Clarity To Del. Corporate Law

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    A recently proposed bill in Delaware that would provide greater predictability for areas including director independence and controlling stockholders reflects prudential adjustments consistent with the state's long history of refining and modernizing its corporate law, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Opinion

    At 100, Federal Arbitration Act Is Used To Thwart Justice

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    The centennial of the Federal Arbitration Act, a law intended to streamline dispute resolution in commercial agreements, is an opportunity to reflect on its transformation from a tool of fairness into a corporate shield that impedes the right to a fair trial, says Lori Andrus at the American Association for Justice.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'

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    The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.

  • Partially Faulting Airline For 401(k) ESG Focus Belies ERISA

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    A Texas federal court's recent finding that American Airlines breached its fiduciary duty of loyalty, but not of prudence, by letting its 401(k) pursue environmental, social and governance investments, misinterprets the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's standard of care, says Jeff Mamorsky, a Cohen & Buckmann partner and ERISA drafter.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • Opinion

    Weight Drug Suits Highlight Need For Legal Work On Safety

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    The rapid ascent of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic has revolutionized diabetes management and weight loss — but legal wrangling over issues including off-label prescriptions, side effects and compounded versions underscores lawyers' roles in protecting patient safety, says attorney Gregg Goldfarb.

  • Del. Justices' D&O Ruling Clarifies 'Related' Claim Analysis

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    In its recent decision in the Alexion Pharmaceuticals coverage case, the Delaware Supreme Court adopted a "meaningful linkage" standard for relatedness analysis, providing further guidance to Delaware policyholders on how to navigate those directors and officers insurance disputes, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: February Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal appellate court class certification decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving breach of life insurance contracts, constitutional violations of inmates and more.

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