March 31 (Reuters) - A proposed antitrust class action against a group of elite U.S. universities was upended at least temporarily on Tuesday, when a federal judge in Chicago said he had been misled ...

A class action lawsuit allows a large group of people — called a class — who have similar claims against the same defendant to consolidate their cases into a single proceeding. Class actions are ...

More than three decades defending food companies in labeling class actions has made one thing abundantly clear: when a class action theory weakens, the plaintiffs’ bar doesn’t disappear; it evolves -- ...

More than a dozen lawsuits are taking aim at private-credit accounting practices as regulators try to open these funds to a ...

On October 7, industry representatives from venture and startup companies gathered at an emergency parliamentary debate to ...

The class actions, filed from Nov. 7 to Nov. 20, come as the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation hears arguments this week on whether to coordinate five similar suits against claims ...

Plaintiff class action lawyers believe that they have found a new type of employee benefit program to go after for potential fiduciary breach violations – voluntary benefits. On December 23, 2025, ...

A class action lawsuit alleges that inadequate security measures by NBCUniversal led to a 2026 data breach that compromised ...

Once largely unknown to judges and lawyers, rebates paid to class action claims administrators by fintechs and banks are spilling into public view–and prompting the administrators to forgo them in ...

Under the FLSA, wage and hour claims are brought as "collective actions" — which require employees to "opt in" to participate. State law class actions (and most other employment class actions) use ...