7/7/2026 2:55:49 AM Northern District of California Allows False Advertising Claims Against Hobby Lobby to Proceed By Regina Gerhardt California continues to serve as a hotbed for reference-pricing and false discount litigation. In a recent decision, Loza v. Hobby Lobby...
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...
6/11/2026 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...
6/1/2026 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;...
5/2/2026 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...