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Erika Girardi — known professionally as Erika Jayne, star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — faces two active civil lawsuits seeking a combined $43 million. The principal lawsuit, filed by bankruptcy trustee Elissa D. Miller in April 2022 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, alleges that Girardi’s company…

The 23andMe data breach class action lawsuit settled for $30 million after a federal court approved the agreement on January 20, 2026. The settlement resolves a cyberattack announced by 23andMe on October 6, 2023, which resulted in the theft of personal information from approximately 6.4 million United States residents. The February 17, 2026 claim deadline…

Panera Bread faced four civil lawsuits — including two wrongful death claims — alleging that its Charged Lemonade beverage contained dangerously high levels of caffeine that the company failed to adequately disclose to consumers. All four cases have now been resolved: Panera settled the first lawsuit in October 2024 and settled the remaining three in…

Tinder has agreed to a $60.5 million class action settlement to resolve allegations that the dating app unlawfully charged subscribers age 30 and over more for advanced features than younger users. The settlement was preliminarily approved by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Laura A. Seigle on January 13, 2026, ending a decade-long litigation. No claim…

A proposed class action lawsuit targets SmartyPants, Inc. — a children’s vitamin brand now owned by Unilever — over allegations that its gummy vitamin products are falsely labeled as “complete” and providing “essential” nutrition. The 37-page suit against SmartyPants Healthy Minds, Inc. claims the company has “cheated customers” by touting its multivitamins as “complete” and…

A proposed class action lawsuit filed against The Topps Company, Inc. alleges the trading card giant falsely advertised its 2025-26 NBA Chrome Basketball Trading Card Mega Boxes by promoting the chance to pull ultra-rare Blue X-Fractor cards — a chance that, due to a printing error, never actually existed. Topps revealed in a mid-January 2026…