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Equity Residential has agreed to pay $1,000,000 to settle a class action brought by a tenant of Mill Creek Apartments in Milpitas, California. The lawsuit claims the landlord did not follow the city’s Rent Review Ordinance when it sent renewal notices and raised rents. Equity Residential denies any wrongdoing. Eligible tenants do not need to…
Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Limited has reportedly agreed to pay A$750 million to settle two class actions over defective diesel particulate filter (DPF) systems in certain Toyota HiLux, Prado and Fortuner vehicles sold in Australia. Australian outlets reported the agreement on October 12 and 13, 2026, and the reports say it would be the largest…
If your personal information was exposed in the June 2025 cyberattack on Carter Credit Union (also called Carter Federal Credit Union), you may be able to claim cash and free credit monitoring from a class action settlement. The deadline to file a claim is November 19, 2026. Act first on this date: the deadline to…
Three California consumers have filed a putative class action against Samsung Electronics America, Inc., claiming Samsung Smart TVs track what people watch without real consent. The case is Tillery, et al. v. Samsung Electronics America Inc., Case No. 3:26-cv-11448, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It was filed on October…
The biggest FTC refund story of September 2026 is the expansion of Amazon Prime refunds under the $2.5 billion settlement over how Amazon enrolled customers in Prime and made it hard to cancel. On September 17, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission announced additional payments, a higher maximum total of $200 per eligible customer, and a…
On October 12, 2026, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, told the Warsaw Security Forum that any attack on alliance territory would meet a decisive military response. He described the approach as block, blunt and break. The next day, NATO’s annual nuclear deterrence exercise, Steadfast Noon, begins in Italy. Together,…
Former Vice President Kamala Harris leads the early national polling for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. She has also not announced a campaign, her party is divided over whether she should run again, and an early poll is not a prediction of who will win the nomination. This article covers where the polls stand, why…
On the afternoon of Monday, October 12, 2026, one guest died and several others were injured in an incident involving the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell, Cobb County, Georgia. Cobb County Police confirmed the death and injuries, and detectives from the department’s Major Crimes Unit are investigating. As of October…
On October 5, 2026, four higher-education organizations sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Justice in federal court in Massachusetts. They are challenging two August 2026 messages from ICE’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) that, in their view, sharply narrow when schools can authorize Curricular…