United States: Class Actions

On July 1, 2025, California amended its Automatic Renewal Law (ARL) (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17600 et seq.), enumerating new obligations for businesses and providing enhanced rights to consumers.

Washington’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act (CEMA) prohibits sending commercial emails to Washington residents that contain false or misleading information in the subject line.

On April 1, 2026, in Laura O’Dell et. al. v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc., No. 25-1528, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 9420 (9th Cir. Apr. 1, 2026), a panel for the Ninth Circuit held that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California...

PFAS-related consumer class actions continue to face scrutiny at the pleading stage, as illustrated by the recent Aronstein decision regarding adhesive bandages.

One of our responsibilities as outside counsel to community banks is to be aware of trends and risks faced by such banks as well as opportunities presented to them.

On March 26, 2026, Judge Paul Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order denying certification of a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) collective action brought by a study coordinator alleging that his employer, a medical school, misclassified him and a group of similarly-situated individuals in Castillo, et al. v. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. et al., No. 24 Civ. 00984, 2026 WL 834712 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 26, 2026).

In this article, the authors discuss a decision by a federal district court in New York striking an “opt-out” third-party release and corresponding injunction from a chapter 11 plan.

One major antitrust headline this past week included the decision by a coalition of more than two dozen states to continue the monopolization litigation against Live Nation...

Episode 13 is now live. In this Episode, we discuss wiretap and tracking pixel claims under the Federal Wiretap Act and the different...