BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge dismissed without prejudice a consolidated class action brought by individuals whose personal information was allegedly compromised in a July 2025 cyberattack on health care technology provider Healthcare Interactive Inc., finding that the plaintiffs lacked Article III standing because, although six of the 17 named plaintiffs alleged more specific harms, none provided sufficient detail tying those harms to information the company possessed or to the breach itself, while the remaining plaintiffs relied on generalized or conclusory allegations of injury.

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge granted an insurer’s motion to dismiss Yahoo Inc.’s lawsuit seeking a declaration as to coverage for costs that were incurred by its European subsidiary in regulatory proceedings alleging violations of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation and denied Yahoo’s motion to remand the lawsuit to a Delaware court, holding that the federal court lacks personal jurisdiction over the insurer.

PHILADELPHIA — Dismissing physicians’ false light invasion of privacy counterclaims, defamation counterclaims by a medical practice, and physicians and attorneys’ civil extortion, sham litigation and abuse of process counterclaims, a Pennsylvania federal judge found in part that Pennsylvania does not recognize a civil cause of action for extortion in a suit by ride-sharing company Uber Technologies Inc. and Federal Express Corp. (FedEx) alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) related to an alleged scheme to litigate fraudulent personal injury claims in Philadelphia state court.

NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 27 affirmed a lower court’s ruling dismissing an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related state law and New York City law putative class complaint against ride-sharing platform Lyft Inc. for allegedly failing to make wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs) available in all U.S.-based Lyft regions, finding that because the lower court concluded that the proposed modifications would not achieve the WAV service desired, the modifications “could not be found reasonable.”

DENVER — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal and summary judgment orders in a qui tam suit filed against insurers alleging false representations in their bid to administer state behavioral health services, including those funded by Medicaid, finding that the relator failed to establish the element of scienter required under state law and the False Claims Act (FCA).

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation contend in opposition to a British Columbia lead-zinc smelter operator’s U.S. Supreme Court petition for certiorari asking whether the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act “authorizes damages for the felt loss of a cultural connection to natural resources,” that “there is no circuit split on the question” and that the operator does not identify an error in, or “accurately characterize,” a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling that CERCLA does not bar natural resource damages for lost uses that have a “cultural component.”

ATLANTA — Issuing an unpublished Aug. 27 opinion affirming a ruling against a pro se claimant whose long-term disability (LTD) benefits were terminated under an any-occupation definition of disability, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said it was reasonable for the insurer “to rely on the findings of four medical professionals, in conjunction with the independent medical examination and the two vocational assessments, to find that [she] no longer met the definition of disabled under the policy because she could perform sedentary jobs in her area.”

CHICAGO — Saying the appeal required “a straightforward application of one Supreme Court precedent, and a careful analysis of another,” the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a suit that sought a declaration that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempted two parts of a state regulation implementing the Arkansas Pharmacy Benefits Manager Licensure Act.