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December 10, 2025
NEW YORK — A federal district court lacks jurisdiction over a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ referral of an attorney to a grievance panel based on its conclusion that she misused artificial intelligence, and the attorney has not demonstrated a likelihood of success otherwise, a magistrate judge said in recommending that the court deny injunctive relief.
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December 10, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California declined to stay an artificial intelligence age discrimination case while the U.S. Supreme Court considers a pair of petitions involving Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) collective actions, saying any harm from having to reassess the notice process is speculative and does not outweigh the harm the plaintiffs would experience from the delay.
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December 10, 2025
CAMDEN, N.J. — A manufacturer of losartan products has agreed to pay $1,899,000 to settle claims brought against it by consumers and third-party payers (TPPs) who allege in a multidistrict litigation in a New Jersey federal court that the blood pressure medication was contaminated, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement agreement.
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December 09, 2025
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A trial court’s dismissal of a putative class claim that a movie theater chain violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) was affirmed by an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 8, which concluded that although the chain shares certain consumer information with Meta Platforms Inc., it does not qualify as a video tape service provider (VTSP) under the statute.
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December 09, 2025
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota federal judge on Dec. 8 granted preliminary approval of a settlement under which Wells Fargo & Co. would pay $84 million to resolve a class action against it and two other defendants; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit challenges how Wells Fargo used dividends of its preferred stock held in its 401(k)’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fund.
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December 08, 2025
RICHMOND, Va. — On the heels of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s appellant brief in its interlocutory appeal of 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, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on Dec. 5 asked the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for extra time to decide whether to file an amicus curiae brief; among other things, the retirees generally allege that the use of offshore captive reinsurers makes the insurers that are responsible to pay annuities because of the PRTs more likely to fall short of their obligations.
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December 08, 2025
MIAMI — A Florida federal judge deemed the $14 million settlement of a consolidated class action over a turnkey payer service’s 2022 data breach to be “fair, reasonable, and adequate,” granting final approval and issuing final judgment to the plaintiffs.
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December 05, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 5 granted a petition by President Donald J. Trump and other federal government parties seeking a decision on the legality of an executive order (EO) Trump signed in January declaring that children born in the United States are not citizens when their mother is “unlawfully present in the United States” or their mother’s presence is “temporary” and their father is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
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December 05, 2025
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California granted final approval to a $2.25 million settlement between investors and former executives of a microturbine manufacturer who the investors alleged defrauded investors by making false or misleading statements regarding the company’s revenue.
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December 05, 2025
ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge granted partial summary judgment to investors who sued the trustee of a cryptocurrency and the company that managed the cryptocurrency for selling the cryptocurrency without filing a registration statement, finding that the investors met the first two prongs of the test established under Secs. & Exch. Comm’n v. W.J. Howey Co. but that there was a dispute over whether the promotional materials for the cryptocurrency “attracted Plaintiffs with an expectation of profits.”
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December 05, 2025
PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear Dec. 9 oral argument in an appeal where retirement plan participants who filed an Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action over proprietary target date funds (TDFs) lost on all counts following a bench trial; among other things, the participants seek vacatur of an order taxing them with nearly $94,000 in costs.
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December 04, 2025
CHICAGO — Citing the plaintiff’s failure “to identify a uniform sample” among his proposed comparator stable value funds (SVFs), an Illinois federal judge on Dec. 3 dismissed a putative class complaint concerning an allegedly underperforming SVF with leave to amend.
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December 04, 2025
PHOENIX — An Arizona federal judge on Dec. 3 granted final approval to a class settlement with a present value of $7 million that resolves a suit challenging the use of allegedly outdated mortality assumptions to calculate annuities for married pension plan participants; as requested, the judge also awarded a third of that total for attorney fees.
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December 04, 2025
CHICAGO — A named plaintiff who signed up for Amazon.com Inc.’s Voice ID program after the filing of a suit would be subject to unique defenses that render him unfit to be a class representative, a federal judge in Illinois said while certifying claims that the company violated Illinois law by collecting certain biometric data through its Alexa artificial intelligence system.
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December 04, 2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google LLC opposed a motion to certify a class action and asked a federal judge in California to strike the allegations with prejudice as a sanction for artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ “midnight switch” of proposed classes and subclasses.
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December 04, 2025
DENVER — A federal judge in Colorado partially granted a provisional motion for class certification and a preliminary injunction motion filed by four individuals challenging their immigrant status arrests in that state without warrants.
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December 03, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed with leave to amend a putative class action filed by citizens of the United Kingdom against two companies that own and operate the “Honey” discount-finding browser extension, finding that the plaintiffs’ claim for monetary restitution under California’s unfair competition law (UCL) is actually a claim for damages and, therefore, not recoverable.
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December 03, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decision by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that found no error in the certification of a national third-party payer (TPP) class of entities that paid for the diabetes drug Actos, despite the court recognizing that there is no way to calculate the number of class members that were not harmed, should be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split on when a court may certify the class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3), two drug companies argue in a petition for a writ of certiorari.
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December 03, 2025
NEW YORK — Seven users of the Kalshi App filed a putative class complaint in a federal court in New York seeking to recover wagers they placed regarding various aspects of professional sports games, arguing that the app-based platform marketed as a “prediction market” is actually an unlicensed sports gambling platform.
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December 03, 2025
NEW YORK — Granting three $25,000 case contribution awards over the defendants’ opposition, a New York federal judge on Dec. 2 gave final approval to a class settlement that was struck after a rare Employee Retirement Income Security Act jury trial in a challenge to the record-keeping and administration fees of a multiple employer retirement plan; the deal includes a $48.5 million payment that with interest now totals $49,539,537, and class counsel were awarded a third of that total for attorney fees as requested.
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December 03, 2025
SHERMAN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas on Dec. 2 granted Toyota Motor North America Inc.’s motion to compel arbitration and stay a class action alleging that Toyota, Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. and a provider of data analytics services in the automotive industry violated the Federal Wiretap Act and are responsible for injuries they inflicted on tens of thousands of class members because of their unauthorized collection and dissemination of private information from Toyota vehicles.
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December 03, 2025
PORTLAND, Ore. — Journalists and protesters filed a putative class complaint in a federal court in Oregon alleging that they were shot at and tear-gassed in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution while attending and covering immigration policy protests outside a building in Portland that they refer to as the “Portland ICE building.”
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December 03, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted final approval of Align Technology Inc.’s renegotiated $31.75 million settlement ending antitrust claims by a class of those who purchased or paid for SmileDirectClub aligners and granted the requested attorney fees, expenses and $7,500 service awards for each of the three class representatives.
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December 03, 2025
WILMINGTON, Del. — Three models of Frigidaire gas ranges contain a defect that results in the ovens failing to achieve the set temperature, resulting in undercooked food, a California man alleges in a putative class complaint filed against Electrolux Home Products Inc. and Electrolux Consumer Products Inc. in a federal court in Delaware.
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December 03, 2025
BALTIMORE — Addressing three expert challenges in a putative class action concerning NFL disability benefits, a Maryland federal magistrate judge excluded one expert in full and one in part and declined to exclude the third.