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July 28, 2026
CHICAGO — An airline and its excess insurer filed two separate complaints in an Illinois federal court within one day of each other, arguing over excess cyber liability coverage for the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage that the insured argued forced it to cancel more than 1,600 flights and inflicted tens of millions of dollars in business interruption losses.
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July 27, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act into law, preventing food retailers and other businesses from using data collected on consumers, including location, purchasing history or browsing history to engage in what lawmakers called “surveillance-based price setting.”
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July 27, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge dismissed with leave to amend a visually impaired consumer’s putative class action alleging that a website selling men’s grooming products violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) by failing to make the site accessible to visually impaired persons, finding that the consumer failed to establish standing to seek prospective relief under the ADA because he did not sufficiently allege an intention to return after visiting the website only once.
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July 27, 2026
PHOENIX — An Arizona federal judge granted summary judgment for country music duo Big & Rich and their management company in a suit by a concert organizer alleging intentional interference with contractual relations related to John Rich’s alleged tweets on the platform X regarding a concert in Phoenix and COVID-19 restrictions, finding that the evidence did not raise an inference that Big & Rich “acted in bad faith.”
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July 24, 2026
FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas federal judge on July 23 granted in part and denied in part motions to compel discovery by a nonprofit organization in X Corp.’s suit asserting that the nonprofit wrote articles “disparaging X Corp.” by accusing X Corp. of placing advertisements on its platform near “neo-Nazi or other extremist content,” finding that while X Corp. must produce formerly public posts that it deleted, it need not produce public posts that users voluntarily deleted.
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July 24, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted preliminary injunctions to Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. in their suit challenging a New York City law that generally prevents the rideshare platforms from deactivating a driver without just cause and advance notice and provides a reinstatement process, finding that Uber and Lyft are likely to succeed in showing that the law “substantially impairs” the contracts the platforms have with their drivers.
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July 23, 2026
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois granted a motion by the owner and operator of a casino and sweepstakes gaming website to compel a plaintiff seeking to represent a class of Illinois website customers to arbitrate individually her claims regarding the alleged operation of an illegal online casino the under the company’s “Terms of Use” for its website’s “social casino.”
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July 23, 2026
ST. LOUIS — After 41 states and the District of Columbia (the governmental entities) filed proofs of claim seeking nearly $100 billion in damages arising from the 2023 23andMe Inc. data breach, the trust administering the company’s bankruptcy plan asked a Missouri federal bankruptcy court to issue an order permitting entry into a stipulation that would provide the governmental entities with individual shares of an $18 million settlement.
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July 21, 2026
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — X Corp. and a group of music publishers stipulated to the dismissal with prejudice of copyright claims brought against X in a Tennessee federal court, bringing an end to the suit in which the publishers argued that the social media outlet was liable for contributory infringement based on infringing actions by its users.
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July 20, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on July 17 granted a motion for preliminary approval of a $250 million settlement, including an estimated $70 million in attorney fees, to resolve class claims that Apple Inc. violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by misrepresenting the artificial intelligence capabilities that new iPhone models with “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would provide and overruled an argument by objectors who argued that some class members are entitled to more damages.
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July 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge denied in part a defense motion to dismiss claims that Meta unfairly “bricked” its Portal-brand display devices and rendered them “obsolete” by removing major apps from the products in violation of the unfair prong of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and thereby also breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing but granted the motion with leave to amend as to the plaintiffs’ other claims.
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July 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge granted in part a motion to dismiss filed by President Donald J. Trump and other federal government officials and agencies in a nonprofit’s suit challenging Trump’s dissolution of a grant program designed to bring broadband to underserved parts of the United States, finding that though the act’s “explicit racial classification” is unconstitutional, that provision is severable from the rest of the act.
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July 17, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A consumer says in a putative class action filed in California federal court accusing Apple Inc. of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws that he purchased an iPhone in reliance on Apple’s marketing claims regarding privacy and its offer of a “Hide My Email” feature but later learned that the feature does not fully hide users’ emails.
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July 16, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Premium subscribers of YouTube LLC’s video-streaming website filed a putative class action in California federal court against YouTube and its parent company Google LLC for allegedly violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by falsely advertising premium subscriptions as “ad-free,” when in fact even premium subscribers still have to watch advertisements placed in certain videos by content creators.
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July 16, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge granted in part and denied in part an adult website’s motion to dismiss a putative class suit accusing it of tracking users’ activities, dismissing with prejudice the plaintiffs’ claims for violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and their claim for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) but allowing other claims to continue because the plaintiffs did not “consent” to data tracking and the website did not fully disclose its data-tracking practices.
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July 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a decision from the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that Google LLC failed to show that a technology company’s patent was invalid as obvious, holding that PTAB adopted a claim construction without allowing Google a meaningful opportunity to respond when considering a patent describing voice-controlled web browsing.
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July 14, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of U.K. citizens on July 13 filed notice in California federal court that they will appeal to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a ruling dismissing with prejudice their putative class action against two companies that own and operate the “Honey” discount-finding browser extension for false marketing in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws.
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July 14, 2026
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The state of Florida in a motion to remand says that arguments that a state law negligence suit over what it claims was a flawed rollout of ChatGPT belongs in federal court are “frivolous” and “preposterous” and simply an attempt to delay the litigation by the OpenAI entities.
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July 14, 2026
PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania federal judge on July 13 granted in part a motion for summary judgment filed by Under Armour Inc. in an antitrust dispute with a manufacturer of bioceramic powder, finding that the evidence did not support the manufacturer’s claims based on monopolization and that although false website statements were potentially actionable under the Lanham Act, the manufacturer lacked statutory standing and failed to show materiality.
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July 13, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal magistrate judge in New York granted motions by plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation that arose out of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and spanned more than 20 years to enforce default judgments against Iran by pursuing execution and attachment of two digital wallets that contained approximately $344 million of Tether cryptocurrency tokens that were allegedly owned by the Central Bank of Iran.
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July 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel revived a technology company’s patent infringement claims related to one of two patents it asserted against Amazon.com Services LLC and a related entity, vacating a Delaware federal judge’s finding that the plaintiff-appellant’s patent was invalid as indefinite because a precedential Federal Circuit ruling issued after the judge’s decision warrants further analysis of the issue.
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July 10, 2026
SEATTLE — A Washington federal judge on July 9 granted summary judgment and dismissed with prejudice a putative class action against Amazon.com Inc. and its wholly owned audiobook-focused subsidiary Audible Inc. accusing them of enrolling a consumer in an Audible subscription and charging her renewal fees without consent in violation of California consumer protection laws, finding that following discovery the plaintiff had failed to prove that she was misled into subscribing to Audible.
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July 10, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on July 9 granted in part and denied in part Visa Inc.’s motion to dismiss certain claims against it arising out of its processing of payments for the pornography website Pornhub brought by a plaintiff who claims that the website monetized child sex abuse material (CSAM) made of her while she was a minor, dismissing a civil conspiracy claim but allowing claims to proceed for conspiracy to violate sex-trafficking laws and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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July 09, 2026
BALTIMORE — A Maryland federal judge granted a motion to file a second amended complaint by NetChoice, an internet trade association representing Amazon, Google and others, finding that NetChoice demonstrated “good cause by showing that it acted diligently in this case” in its challenge to a Maryland law enacted to protect the online privacy of minors.
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July 09, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A user of Apple Inc.’s proprietary web browser, Safari, filed a putative class action lawsuit in California federal court accusing Apple of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by deceptively advertising the browser as “a private, secure web browser that does not disclose individuals’ personal information” when it allegedly allows third-party tracking of users’ data.