6/15/2026 10:15:42 PM Big Claims, Little Kids: Recent SDNY Decision Highlights Risks in Advertising By Regina Gerhardt A recent decision out of the Southern District of New York provides a textbook analysis of how courts evaluate advertising claims under...
6/15/2026 9:34:24 PM A Dormant California License Plate Reader Law Is Driving Class Actions Against Retailers, Malls, and Property Owners By Peter Devlin Retailers, hotels, shopping centers, and parking operators are deploying automated license plate reader (“ALPR”) cameras at their...
6/11/2026 4:09:16 PM Email Subject Line Litigation: Washington’s CEMA Isn’t the Only Game in Town By Peter Devlin If you send marketing emails, you’re probably already aware of Washington’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act (“CEMA”). Since the Washington...
6/5/2026 9:45:13 PM Can You Smell What the Plaintiff’s Bar is Cooking? By Chessie da Parma ADA Class Actions and the Rise of “Scent-Based” Accessibility Claims If the last six months are any indication, the plaintiffs’ bar has...
6/2/2026 3:59:01 PM Surveillance Pricing Class Actions Are Here By Peter Devlin Most of the “surveillance pricing” news (or “algorithmic pricing,” depending on who you ask) has been about what’s coming. Which states...
6/1/2026 1:54:05 PM The Next Class-Action Trend? Plaintiffs Double Down on Tariff Refunds By Emily B. Tate If you are reading this article, you know how it works. Plaintiffs’ counsel develop a new theory of liability; They file a handful of...
5/29/2026 3:56:43 PM Rethinking Legal Risk: Technical Solutions to Online Wiretapping and Eavesdropping Legal Problems By Matthew Pearson When it comes to the third-party collection of data via JavaScript embedded in a website’s HTML code (what plaintiffs like to call...
5/24/2026 8:36:26 PM "Class Action" Is Not A Dirty Word. By Matthew Pearson I’ve spent the last 15 years of my life litigating class actions, which means for the last 15 years, no one has ever wanted to call me. ...
5/12/2026 7:00:38 PM The SDK in Your App May Be Your Next Class Action Lawsuit By Peter Devlin Recently, a federal judge in the Northern District of California denied major ad network InMobi's motion to dismiss a putative class...
5/6/2026 11:31:33 PM Are Your Terms of Use Enforceable? Ask ChatGPT. By Matthew Pearson Companies spend hours drafting their Terms of Use. They debate whether to include mandatory, pre-dispute notification provisions;...
5/6/2026 10:53:29 PM California Civil Code § 1670.15: What Businesses Need to Know About California's New Limits on Arbitration Agreements By Caren Decter Peter Devlin For years, companies have relied on broad arbitration agreements in their terms of service that mandate arbitration of all consumer...
5/2/2026 7:12:36 PM CDAFA: What Is It And Why Now? By Matthew Pearson We live in an acronym world: CIPA, VPPA, ECPA, CMIA, CCPA, ALPR, BIPA, etc. But one acronym has gotten more use as of late: CDAFA. ...
5/1/2026 10:44:06 PM The CIPA-CCPA Disconnect: Faulty-Cookie-Banner Claims By Matthew Pearson Within the last twelve months, the number of class actions asserting claims based on faulty cookie banners has skyrocketed. The...
5/1/2026 6:51:49 PM From Chatbots to Websites to Connected TV: The Evolution of Tracking Class Actions By Matthew Pearson As technology advances, so, too, does privacy litigation. When the California legislature enacted the California Invasion of Privacy Act...