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(Podcast) The Briefing: Influencer Fail – ALO Yoga & Influencers Named in $150M Class Action Lawsuit for FTC Violations
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The ringless voicemail nightmare continues for TCPA defendants. For years the purveyors of Ringless Voicemail solutions came to market arguing voicemails were not subject to the TCPA. They even had white papers from less...more
On May 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit reversed a district court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a putative class action alleging a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)....more
A recent class action settlement involving a video game and DVD retailer serves as a reminder of the risks of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act. The case was brought against DirectToU, a video game and DVD seller and...more
Over the last few years, the plaintiffs’ bar has frequently cited businesses’ use of session replay code (SRC) on websites as one basis for the flood of website tracking litigation against businesses across the country. SRCs...more
Picture if you will a quiet Texas home. It’s unremarkable, cozy, and most importantly for the purposes of this article, insured. All is well at this humble domicile until disaster strikes in one of the many forms that the...more
Wellness-forward marketing is under attack. The growing wave of ingredient-level challenges to these marketing claims begs the question: how many of these claims are truly viable and under what circumstances?...more
Cyber incidents are increasingly giving rise to complex, long‑tail litigation risk, particularly for financial services firms. As regulators place growing emphasis on operational resilience, outsourcing governance and...more
Private credit in the United States has grown from roughly $41 billion in 2000 to an estimated $1–$2 trillion today. Some projections anticipate growth globally to $5 trillion by 2029. Funds now compete directly with...more
Law Conference of Champions IV saw Troutman Amin, LLP partner Brittany Andres take the stage and give an absolutely BRILLIANT discussion of litigation tactics in TCPA class litigation....more
Highlights from this issue include: Intervention. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that after the district court denied a motion to certify a Rule 23(b)(3) damages class,...more
Developments in securities litigation move fast, and not all of them matter equally. Each month, Alto Litigation curates and summarizes the cases, rulings, and regulatory actions most likely to shape risk and strategy in the...more
District courts in the First Circuit issued several important decisions in early 2026 regarding the enforceability of arbitration provisions and interpreting recent First Circuit precedent. The cases revolved around a variety...more
Our readers are aware that when they surf the internet, their data may be shared via the use of third-party pixel tracking technologies (such as those employed by Meta, Google, and Microsoft, to name a few). As our readers...more
On May 14, the California Supreme Court issued its opinion in J.M. v. Illuminate Education Inc., delivering an important and nuanced ruling for companies that maintain health-related data but do not consider themselves...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that arbitrators’ decisions that an arbitration clause is unenforceable may not be used to preclude arbitration in cases involving other plaintiffs in the same putative class action...more
On 12 May 2026, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) drew the line on how far mass claims aggregation can go (case no. KZR 6/24 – Sammelklage-Inkasso). The case involved bundled cartel damages...more
On April 24, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided Clippinger v. State Farm Auto. Ins. Co., 173 F.4th 817. By a vote of 10-7, the court ruled that an insurance dispute about the valuation of totaled...more
On April 20, 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) opened the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) portal, allowing importers of record to redeclare entries and seek refunds of International...more
A recent amendment to Washington’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act (CEMA), scheduled to take effect on June 11, 2026, has prompted a surge of class action filings....more
Earlier this year, the Delaware Supreme Court delivered the latest win for policyholders in a string of battles regarding so-called “Bump-Up Exclusions” in directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance policies. The ruling...more
In a unanimous decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court held on May 28, 2026, that a worker who transports goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey can be exempt from arbitration under...more
When does a company’s failure to disclose that a warned-of risk has materialized cross the line into securities fraud? In Smith v. The Gap, Inc., No. 25-1130, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 15173 (2d Cir. May 28, 2026), the United...more
A Disney+ user must arbitrate his claim that ESPN Inc. gave his viewing data to Facebook's parent company Meta without his permission, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled, saying federal arbitration law preempts a...more
Key Highlights - The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s refusal to compel arbitration where an employer rolled out mandatory arbitration agreements during a pending wage-and-hour class action....more
ERISA’s fiduciary duties are not limited to retirement plans. Fiduciaries of employee welfare benefit plans—including employer-sponsored health and welfare plans that offer voluntary benefits such as accident, critical...more