Environmental enforcement EPA Alleges Hazardous-Waste Failures Across Spirit AeroSystems’ Wichita Plant Inspectors described chromium-contaminated waste on floors, open containers, incompatible chemicals stored together and used oil outside secondary containment. Spirit agreed to a $189,000 penalty without admitting or denying the…
Drinking Water Investigation Federal and New Jersey officials allege that three uncovered reservoirs expose already-treated drinking water to renewed contamination risks… and that the system serving roughly 800,000 people still lacks a final compliance deadline. August 12, 2026 · Source…
Algorithmic Pricing · Antitrust Hotel guests say competing casino-hotels fed confidential pricing and occupancy data into the same system, then followed its room-rate recommendations. A federal appeals court ruled that the allegations are plausible enough to test in discovery. U.S.…
Pharmaceuticals · Drug Safety · Consumer Litigation More than 732,000 bottles were included in a 2025 recall described in a new federal complaint. The lawsuit alleges that purchasers paid for a heart drug contaminated by a nitrosamine and made without…
SEC Enforcement · Pre-IPO Funds The SEC Says Adit Ventures Used Client Funds as Its Own Financing System A federal complaint alleges that investor money moved through undisclosed loans, marked-up share sales, unauthorized fees and a credit facility backed by…
Environmental enforcement A federal complaint says Pilgrim Foods’ own monitoring identified unauthorized pollutant discharges on 1,728 days. Decades of warnings, consent decrees and required monitoring allegedly failed to stop acidic water from reaching a stream and the Souhegan River. August…
Health privacy · Proposed class settlement Victims alleged that tracking technologies on Wellstar’s website and patient portal disclosed private information to Meta, Google, and other third parties. The proposed deal covers an estimated 870,000 people, but what’s annoying is that…
Consumer labeling investigation A proposed class action says Liquid I.V. electrolyte mixes carry zero-sugar claims while disclosing four or five grams of allulose per serving. The dispute turns on whether federal labeling rules treat that allulose as sugar. Based on…
Consumer technology investigation A California purchaser says Oura sold clinical-sounding certainty from a ring that estimates sleep stages through indirect signals. Source: Class action complaint filed August 20, 2026 · U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ·…
Data breach investigation Roughly 2.4 million people fall within a proposed settlement after an attack potentially exposed identifiers, insurance information and medical records. The headline amount is only the beginning of the accounting. Primary source: settlement agreement filed December 31,…