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October 14, 2025
American Airlines Didn't Pay For Preflight Work, Suit Claims
American Airlines fails to pay its flight attendants for work they performed before and after their flights, resulting in unpaid overtime, a flight attendant claimed in a proposed class action in Pennsylvania state court.
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October 14, 2025
2nd Circ. Weighs Taking 'Novel' ICE Detainee Labor Appeal
A Second Circuit panel mulled Tuesday if it should consider on an interlocutory basis if the New York Labor Law covers a class of detainees who allege they were underpaid by a for-profit company that manages a Buffalo-area immigration detention facility.
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October 14, 2025
Justices Decline 7th Amendment Review In Calif. Pot Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case arguing that the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in civil cases should apply in instances of local law enforcement issuing penalties for alleged illicit marijuana cultivation.
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October 10, 2025
Zantac MDL Suits Were Impropely Tossed, 11th Circ. Told
Consumers urged the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to revive their claims in a multidistrict litigation alleging that the main ingredient in the heartburn medication Zantac causes cancer, saying the court overseeing the case improperly sided with drugmakers' experts and preempted more claims from coming forward.
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October 10, 2025
Judge Dubious Of Amazon Shoppers' Slow Shipping Zone Suit
A Washington federal judge cast doubt Friday on a group of Amazon Prime subscribers' argument that variability in delivery time by ZIP code amounts to an unfair business practice, highlighting data that suggests packages sometimes take longer than two days to arrive regardless of the purchaser's address.
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October 10, 2025
Block Founders Face Investor Suit Over Cash App Fraud
Several executives and directors of Cash App parent company Block Inc. have been hit with a derivative suit accusing them of allowing Cash App's "frictionless" sign-up system to fuel fraud, money laundering and inflated user counts while lying about compliance.
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October 10, 2025
Marex's Inflated Revenues Hurt Short Sellers, Suit Says
U.K.-based financial services company Marex Group PLC faces a proposed class action accusing the company of hurting short sellers by using off-order book transactions with its subsidiaries to improperly inflate certain key accounting metrics for its market-making segment.
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October 10, 2025
Cummins To Settle Investor Suit Over Emissions Scandal
Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. and an investor have reached an agreement to settle proposed class action claims that the company hurt investors by hiding emissions control devices in certain engines, for which the company has paid a record $2 billion to settle regulators' Clean Air Act claims.
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October 10, 2025
SC Woman Says Recall Not Enough For Wood In Corn Dogs
A South Carolina woman lodged a proposed class action Friday in California federal court claiming Foster Farms sold corn dogs later recalled for potentially containing wood in the batter, saying the recall isn't a sufficient remedy for consumers who've already bought the food.
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October 10, 2025
Musk Accuses OpenAI Ex-Exec Of Subpoena 'Cat And Mouse'
A California federal magistrate judge is allowing Elon Musk to serve a deposition subpoena by Federal Express to a tech executive who briefly served as OpenAI's interim CEO after hearing that process servers and investigators had attempted personal service 11 times but were "stonewalled" by the woman and her security.
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October 10, 2025
ATyr Pharma Faces Investor Suit Over Failed Drug Trial
Rare disease biotech aTyr Pharma Inc. and its CEO have been hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing them of misleading the public about the efficacy of aTyr's lung disease treatment for several months before announcing its trial had not yielded favorable results.
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October 10, 2025
Credit Union Beats Class Action Over 2024 Data Breach
SRP Federal Credit Union has defeated, for now, a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of roughly 240,000 current and former customers that was exposed in a 2024 data breach, with a South Carolina federal judge finding that plaintiffs had failed to allege concrete injuries that were traceable to the breach.
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October 10, 2025
'LinkedIn For Doctors' Accused In Chancery Of Inflating Data
A shareholder of a San Francisco-based networking company for healthcare workers filed a derivative suit Friday in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing the CEO and directors of overstating user engagement and deceiving investors.
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October 10, 2025
Bed Bath & Beyond $1.95M ERISA Deal Gets Final OK
A New Jersey federal judge signed off on a $1.95 million class action settlement resolving claims that the administrators of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.'s 401(k) savings plan shortchanged employees after the retailer's bankruptcy-triggered plan termination.
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October 10, 2025
Philly-Area Transit System Rider Files Rate Hike Class Claims
A proposed class action accused the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority of "playing chicken" with the Pennsylvania state Legislature and enacting "doomsday" fare increases to force lawmakers to give the agency a bigger budget, and the suit asked a state court to undo the price hike.
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October 10, 2025
Apple Faces Class Cert. Bid In Mobile Wallet Antitrust Case
An attorney for a proposed class of credit card issuers urged a California federal judge Friday to grant class certification in a suit accusing Apple of monopolizing mobile wallet technology for its own devices even though two lead plaintiffs said they would not pass transaction fees on to their users.
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October 10, 2025
Duke Accused Of Misusing Retirement Funds In Class Claims
Just weeks after settling one benefits-related lawsuit, Duke University has been hit with another putative class action in North Carolina federal court, this time accusing it of being disloyal to retirement plan participants by using forfeited funds only to reduce its own contributions.
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October 10, 2025
StubHub Sued Over Failure To Refund Swift's Eras Tour Show
Online ticket reseller StubHub regularly reneges on its "FanProtect Guarantee" to either provide comparable tickets or refund customers if the tickets they bought aren't available the day of the concert, according to a proposed class action by a woman who says she was swindled out of thousands of dollars during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
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October 10, 2025
9th Circ. Upholds Tossing Dietary Supplement False Ad Suit
The Ninth Circuit has upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging Golo LLC falsely marketed its supplements as weight loss aids, ruling the claims are barred by federal law.
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October 10, 2025
6th Circ. Affirms Class Status In Totaled Car Payout Dispute
A panel of Sixth Circuit judges upheld the class certification of a suit alleging State Farm systematically undervalues totaled vehicles, saying that a class of Tennessee insureds were linked by a common alleged harm of breach of contract.Â
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October 10, 2025
Angi Hit With Class Action Over Unpaid Wages, Overtime
A former sales representative for Angi Inc. has filed a proposed collective and class action in Colorado federal court against the internet services company, alleging it failed to pay its workers for off-the-clock work and overtime hours.
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October 10, 2025
SEC's Atkins Criticizes Del. As 'Uninterested' In IPO Reform
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said he is "disappointed" by recent changes to Delaware law that he believes will drive up litigation costs for public companies and make the state seem "uninterested in reform" that would encourage more companies to file initial public offerings there.
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October 10, 2025
Profs Say Apple Used Copyrighted Material For AI Training
Two neuroscientists have sued Apple in California federal court, claiming it made use of their copyrighted materials to train its artificial intelligence model Apple Intelligence.
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October 10, 2025
Pharma Co. Escapes Suit Over Ex-CEO's Alleged Misconduct
Exscientia PLC on Friday won dismissal of a proposed class action related to the termination of its CEO after claims emerged that he participated in inappropriate workplace relationships, with the court finding the investors failed to show that the company's statements about its culture and governance were anything more than puffery.
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October 10, 2025
Ga. Medical Billing Practice Faces Data Breach Class Action
A Georgia-based medical billing practice was hit with a proposed class action in federal court over a September data breach that allegedly exposed the personally identifiable and protected health information of its patients and current and former employees.
Expert Analysis
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4 Steps To Designing Effective Survey Samples For Trial
The Federal Trade Commission's recent move to exclude a defense expert's survey in FTC v. Amazon on the basis of flaws in the survey sample design highlights that ensuring survey evidence inclusion at trial requires following a road map for effective survey sample design, say consultants at Compass Lexecon.
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Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes
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Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Opinion
State AGs, Not Local Officials, Should Lead Public Litigation
Local governments’ public nuisance lawsuits can raise constitutional and jurisdictional challenges, reinforcing the principle that state attorneys general — not municipalities — are best positioned to litigate on behalf of citizens when it is warranted, says former Utah Attorney General John Swallow.
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Montana Federal Ruling Takes Broad View Of 'Related Claims'
A Montana federal court recently took a broad view of related claims, ruling that claims brought by different plaintiffs in different states alleging different legal theories were nevertheless under a directors and officers insurance policy, illustrating the range of interpretations courts may give these clauses, say attorneys at Hunton.
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Lessons As Joint Employer Suits Shift From Rare To Routine
Joint employer allegations now appear so frequently that employers should treat them as part of the ordinary risk landscape, and several recent decisions demonstrate how fluid the liability doctrine has become, says Thomas O’Connell at Buchalter.
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Utilizing 6th Circ.'s Expanded Internal Investigation Protection
A recent Sixth Circuit decision in In re: FirstEnergy demonstrates one way that businesses can use a very limited showing to protect internal investigations from discovery in commercial litigation, while those looking to force production will need to employ a carefully calibrated approach, say attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt.
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3rd Circ. Clarifies Ch. 11 3rd-Party Liability Scope Post-Purdue
A recent Third Circuit decision that tort claims against the purchaser of a debtor's business belong to the debtor's bankruptcy estate reinvigorates the use of Chapter 11 for the resolution of nondebtor liability in mass tort bankruptcies following last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Purdue Pharma, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.
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Series
Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
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Mortality Table Defenses In Actuarial Equivalent Cases
Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action plaintiffs are filing claims against defined benefit pension plans over the actuarial factors used to calculate alternative forms of annuity payments, including by arguing that employers may use mortality tables from the Middle Ages, but several defenses are available to reframe this debate, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.
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Series
Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.
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And Now A Word From The Panel: Choosing MDL Venues
One of the most interesting yet least predictable facets of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's practice is venue — namely where the panel decides to place a new MDL proceeding — and its choices reflect the tension between neutrality and case-specific factors, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.
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Analyzing AI's Evolving Role In Class Action Claims Admin
Artificial intelligence is becoming a strategic asset in the hands of skilled litigators, reshaping everything from class certification strategy to claims analysis — and now, the nuts and bolts of settlement administration, with synthetic fraud, algorithmic review and ethical tension emerging as central concerns, says Dominique Fite at CPT Group.
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11th Circ.'s FCRA Standing Ruling Offers Compliance Lessons
The Eleventh Circuit's recent decision in Nelson v. Experian on establishing Article III standing under the Fair Credit Reporting Act should prompt businesses to survey FCRA compliance programs, review open matters for standing defenses and refresh training materials, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
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IPO Suit Reinforces Strict Section 11 Tracing Requirement
A California federal court's recent dismissal of an investor class action against Allbirds in connection with the company's initial public offering cites the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Slack v. Pirani decision, reinforcing the firm tracing requirement for Section 11 plaintiffs — even at the pleading stage, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management
Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.