Crews had been working on the White House’s South Lawn for more than two weeks by the time the Public Integrity Project filed its emergency lawsuit on June 7, 2026, to halt UFC Freedom 250. Built to accommodate the first professional athletic event ever staged on White House property, the makeshift claw-shaped construction was visible enough for anyone watching from the street or from above to witness the preparations taking place. For almost a year, the event had been openly scheduled and announced. The UFC has invested almost $60 million in development, logistics, and the building itself. Then, at the…
Author: Eric Evani
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed what he described as the fifth lawsuit in four days on February 20, 2026, against businesses he said were connected to or influenced by the Chinese Communist Party. Shein was the target. The company’s products were referred to in court documents in Collin County District Court as “silent carriers of poison”—a rhetorically charged term that can be linked to particular scientific findings. In late 2025, Greenpeace Germany released research showing that Shein jackets contained PFAS amounts up to 3,300 times the EU safety level. South Korean regulatory testing cited in the lawsuit found phthalate…
Hundreds of thousands of Americans took out loans from internet lenders like Lendgreen, Brightstar Cash, Loan at Last, and Sky Trail Cash between 2016 and 2023. The websites had a polished appearance, the application procedure was swift, and the funds were sent into bank accounts promptly—all characteristics of a contemporary fintech lending product. That category did not apply to the rates. These businesses charged annual interest rates that, according to the plaintiffs in the ensuing class action lawsuit, exceeded state legal limits by margins that were not incidental. This is not the kind of overcharge that occurs at the edges…
On June 10, 2026, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York granted preliminary approval to the $38 billion settlement between Visa, Mastercard, and about 12 million U.S. merchants in a Brooklyn courtroom. He described the agreement as “fair, reasonable, and adequate” and hinted that he was likely to grant final approval. The merchants have been pursuing this case since 2005. This comes after twenty-one years of litigation, numerous settlement attempts, and a previous agreement that was ultimately rejected by a different judge. With $38 billion in settlement value, $118.8 billion in swipe fees collected by…
The internal computer network of ZOLL Medical Corporation, a Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company that manufactures wearable defibrillators, cardiac monitoring equipment, and the LifeVest, a device worn by patients at high risk of sudden cardiac arrest while they wait to be determined whether they require a permanent implanted defibrillator, was compromised by an unauthorized third party in late January 2023. ZOLL discovered the breach on January 28 after it had existed for two days, between January 22 and 23. The business then failed to notify the more than one million individuals whose names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers had…
Approximately 200,000 persons in the United States received a settlement payment in September 2025. It was a real envelope that was likely misidentified as junk mail and ended up on a kitchen counter or in a recycling bin, but it was never cashed. After the initial distribution ended, about $100 million remained in the Facebook User Privacy Settlement fund due to that lag, which was multiplied by millions of digital payments that were also uncollected. On May 6, 2026, the court handling Meta’s $725 million privacy dispute authorized a second round of payouts, returning the unclaimed amounts to the individuals…
On May 15, 2026, construction workers reached the building in downtown Dallas where artist Wyland had created a 17,000-square-foot painting of life-size blue whales in 1999. They brought blue paint and rollers, and over the next few days they painted the majority of the eight-story structure. When Wyland finished it freehand and at the expense of his own foundation as a message about ocean protection, he was awarded the key to the city of Dallas. The majority of the painting had been painted over by May 18, according to the lawsuit Wyland later filed. Citing the Visual Artists Rights Act…
The rotisserie chicken department of any Costco warehouse takes up great space close to the back of the building. This is a purposeful merchandising choice because the $4.99 price, which hasn’t changed since 2009, serves as a loss leader meant to draw customers through the entire shop. Warm and fragrant, the birds emerge from industrial rotisseries, packed in transparent plastic containers, and sold at a rate of over 157 million units annually worldwide. That figure was revealed during Costco’s January 2026 annual meeting. In the same month, two women from California filed a class action lawsuit, claiming that the birds’…
A federal class action settlement may now be applicable to you if you accessed the health system’s websites as a patient, utilized the scheduling tool to make an appointment, paid a medical bill online, or logged into Allina Health’s patient portal between 2018 and 2026. Ahlers et al. v. Allina Health System was filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota in 2024. On May 11, 2026, Judge Nelson granted preliminary approval of a settlement addressing the main claims, marking a critical turning point in the case. The core of the action is a simple technological accusation with complicated legal…
The main legal question in the Gatorade class action, which was brought in the Southern District of New York on May 21, 2026, is surprisingly straightforward: may a sports drink manufacturer claim that its product “hydrates better than water” without providing evidence? The answer should be clear, but Gatorade and its parent company, PepsiCo, have been promoting variations of this claim in various kinds of advertising for decades without being successfully prevented by legal action until now. The plaintiffs in Leam et al. v. PepsiCo specifically reference a post on the company’s website titled “How Gatorade Works & Why It…