Labor & Corporate Accountability San Francisco janitors went public with complaints about working conditions, pay and sexual harassment. What followed included threats, reduced work, a canceled cleaning contract and firings. Twelve years later, a federal appeals court upheld the labor-law…
Employment Law | Retaliation | Arbitration Newton v. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc., No. 25-1697-cv | Decided September 21, 2026 | Published September 24, 2026 LVMH Retaliation Forced Arbitration Court Ruling TL;DR Andowah Newton, a longtime LVMH attorney, sued…
Data privacy · Medical records · Class actions Albany Gastroenterology Consultants says information belonging to approximately 57,751 people was potentially affected by a 2024 breach. The proposed deal offers monitoring and cash…but plot twist! The cash is capped, doing nothing…
Consumer Technology · Proposed Class Action August 12, 2026 filing U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Apple Watch Software Support Consumer Law TL;DR Richard Goetz says he paid approximately $799 for an original Apple Watch Ultra in December 2022,…
Data privacy · Proposed class settlement More than half a million people were sent incident notices. The proposed settlement offers cash claims and two years of monitoring… but the shared cash pool has a hard ceiling, and doing nothing can…
Securities Enforcement · Pre-IPO Funds The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Andrew Spaventa and companies he controlled built a nationwide sales operation around coveted private-company investments… all the while embedding markups of up to 91% in the prices investors…
Data privacy | Proposed class settlement American Vision Partners and related eye-care companies have agreed to a proposed settlement over a 2023 cyberattack. Cash benefits are limited to a smaller group, the payment amount is not fixed, and doing nothing…
Surveillance • Privacy • Proposed Class Action Flock’s cameras turn passing vehicles into searchable location records. A new complaint argues that the network’s controls failed to keep pace with its reach… but no court has yet decided whether Flock is…
Regulatory investigation Ten customers were steered toward speculative, illiquid GWG L Bonds. Four other private-placement offerings moved forward without reasonable due diligence. FINRA’s settlement describes a brokerage whose procedures stated the rules but did not reliably turn them into supervision.…
Privacy infrastructure under scrutiny A proposed settlement covering approximately 23,499 people would offer claim-dependent compensation after a February 2025 cybersecurity incident. The same agreement would extinguish a sweeping range of related claims if the court approves it. Document review Harris…