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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 30 affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of challenges by Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation to Arizona’s Voters’ Right to Know Act, which implemented disclosure requirements for funds spent on campaign media, rejecting the argument that the law is facially unconstitutional and finding that the as-applied free-speech challenge is conclusory.
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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court did not abuse its discretion in certifying injunctive and damages classes in a lawsuit accusing a company that digitizes yearbooks and offers users various levels of access to the information of violating California’s statutory right of publicity, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, rejecting the company’s arguments that individual questions predominate and that the lead plaintiff will not adequately represent the injunctive class.
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October 01, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal magistrate judge granted in part dismissal motions filed by a documentary producer and media companies in a suit filed by former insurance mogul Greg Lindberg alleging in part that the companies conspired with other defendants to solicit Lindberg’s egg donors to breach their nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), finding that the court lacks personal jurisdiction over these defendants.
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October 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two federal student loan borrowers filed a putative class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education in a federal court in the District of Columbia on behalf of themselves and other former students of “predatory for-profit institutions,” alleging that they have been deprived of “their legal entitlement to a clean financial slate” when the Education Department represented to consumer credit bureaus that they owe on student loan debts that were extinguished “years ago.”
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September 28, 2026
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama state court judge on Sept. 25 approved a settlement in which TikTok Inc. and related entities agreed to pay a minimum of $116.2 million, which includes $100 million to the state for restitution and remediation, to resolve allegations that TikTok violated the Alabama Deceptive Trade Practices Act and, among other things, designed its platform with addictive features, knowingly exposed minors to mental harms and intentionally misled consumers about the safety of its platform.
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September 28, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois judge dismissed without prejudice claims for breach of contract and vexatious and unreasonable delay under Illinois Insurance Code Section 155 against an insurance firm but allowed these claims to proceed against an insurance producer in an insured’s lawsuit seeking $4.89 million in cyber insurance coverage for a 2023 ransomware attack, holding that the claims must be dismissed against the firm because the policy is ambiguous by failing to indicate whether the firm or producer will pay the claim.
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September 24, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware judge granted insureds’ motion to stay insurers’ lawsuit seeking a declaration that they have no duty to defend or indemnify the insureds for underlying litigation alleging that their YouTube platform caused harm to minors, holding that a parallel California coverage suit was filed 16 days before the present lawsuit and, therefore, is entitled to deference under Delaware law.
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September 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO and three of their reporters on Sept. 24 filed a notice in a District of Columbia federal court asserting that President Donald J. Trump’s administration officials violated a federal judge’s earlier order the same day granting the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) requiring the reinstatement of their White House press credentials by defendants other than Trump.
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September 23, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing in favor of a ban on White House access due to an alleged “threat” to national security because CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO failed to “maintain basic minimum” professional standards, including their purported publication of classified information, the U.S. Department of Justice on Sept. 22 filed a brief opposing the news outlets’ request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) seeking to stop the defendants from taking further action to implement the ban and to immediately restore their press credentials.
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September 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After President Donald J. Trump announced on the Truth Social platform a White House ban of CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO, these news outlets and three of their reporters on Sept. 21 filed a complaint in District of Columbia federal court, asserting constitutional claims against Trump and several administration officials; the plaintiffs also moved for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that day, seeking to stop the defendants from taking further action to implement the ban and requiring the defendants to immediately restore their press credentials and access.
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September 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New York Times and the class representative in a settled case over an alleged illegal “automatic renewal” scheme filed separate opposition briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a class member’s petition seeking review of class representative payments.
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September 18, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota federal judge on Sept. 17 dismissed with prejudice a former professional football player’s unjust enrichment and invasion of privacy suit against his ex-wife, a social media influencer and model, alleging that she publicized private facts about him on a livestream on the Twitch platform, finding that the ex-wife’s remarks were about her life and the purported trauma she experienced in their marriage and were of “legitimate public concern” given that the former spouses were both celebrities.
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September 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its petitioner’s brief filed Sept. 14 in the U.S. Supreme Court, Apple Inc. urges the court to reverse a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling upholding a district court’s contempt finding against Apple over anticompetitive practices on its App Store in an antitrust dispute with Epic Games Inc., arguing that the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming contempt based on an injunction’s “spirit” rather than its text.
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September 11, 2026
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas state court judge on Sept. 10 granted the state’s motion for partial summary judgment in its suit against TikTok Inc. and related entities alleging that the companies operating the social media platform TikTok violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (DTPA) by “misleading consumers about their efforts to ensure that TikTok protects minors from inappropriate content,” finding that TikTok failed to remove certain categories of video content it claimed it would remove and made misrepresentations about the filtering capabilities of its restricted mode.
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September 11, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Four plaintiffs filed a putative class action complaint in California federal court alleging that PayPal Inc., d/b/a Venmo, is tracking the details of users’ financial transactions on its Venmo payment-processing app and sharing them with third parties even when users set their accounts to private, in violation of privacy laws and California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 11, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge awarded $146.78 million in attorney fees and service awards totaling $135,000 in a privacy class action over Google LLC’s collection of mobile-app data, while in a separate posttrial order the judge denied the plaintiffs a new trial on their California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) claim and rejected Google’s bid to overturn a $425.65 million privacy verdict.
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September 11, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia law firm accused by Uber Technologies Inc. and Federal Express Corp. (FedEx) of participating in a scheme to litigate fraudulent personal injury claims seeks partial summary judgment in a Pennsylvania federal court on Uber’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) claims, arguing that the ride-sharing company lacks standing under the because the underlying litigation costs were paid by an insurer and any claimed loss arising through a separate reinsurance arrangement is too attenuated to satisfy RICO’s injury and proximate causation requirements.
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September 11, 2026
DENVER — Granting motions to compel arbitration and stay proceedings, a Colorado federal judge directed parties to arbitrate in a mother’s negligence, fraud and strict product liability suit against Roblox Corp., Epic Games Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Mojang A.B. alleging that her child became addicted to the companies’ video games; the judge found in part that the mother failed to show that the arbitration provisions at issue were unconscionable.
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September 10, 2026
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Florida’s suit against OpenAI entities will be litigated in state court after a federal judge in Florida said the court lacks jurisdiction over state consumer protection law claims based on violation of a federal law and that complete preemption does not apply.
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September 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge denied a motion by two companies that operate a parking payment app to compel arbitration of putative class claims against them for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by misleading customers into paying more for less parking than they receive after finding that users did not properly assent to arbitration, but granted the companies’ motion to dismiss for failure to plead deception and injury.
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September 10, 2026
MIAMI — The widow of a man who was killed when an Amazon Prime plane crashed into vehicles while landing at Miami International Airport filed a wrongful death and negligence suit on Sept. 9 in Florida state court against Amazon.com Inc., Amazon.com Services LLC, the company operating the plane and related entities and the two pilots, asserting that the defective condition of the aircraft “was a proximate cause of the incident and the failure of the aircraft to properly perform the landing in a safe manner.”
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September 09, 2026
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A man facing murder charges filed a civil complaint in California state court accusing Flock Group Inc., which operates automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology and AI software, and two law enforcement officials of withholding relevant Flock data from the court where the prosecution is taking place, allegedly in violation of his due process rights and California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 08, 2026
PASADENA, Calif. — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled that a California federal judge properly denied online video game developer Roblox Corp.’s renewed motion to compel arbitration of claims brought against it for violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other laws by marketing itself as safe for kids when it allegedly is not because Roblox participated in litigation on the merits before invoking its arbitration clause.
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September 03, 2026
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia federal judge on Sept. 2 rejected proposed remedies that would have required Google LLC to divest portions of its advertising technology business but accepted most of the parties’ proposed behavioral remedies as modified by the court in a suit by the U.S. government and 17 states asserting that Google violated the Sherman Act by monopolizing the publisher ad server market and the ad exchange market and by unlawful tying.
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September 02, 2026
SEATTLE — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and states filed a suit against Amazon.com Inc. in Washington federal court, asserting that it overcharged advertising customers by manipulating auctions used to set ad pricing.