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There’s $359,925,000 set aside for renters — if you paid rent directly to one of 39 major property managers, at a building running RealPage’s pricing software, any time between October 18, 2018 and November 21, 2025. You don’t need proof the software raised your specific rent. You just need to have lived there. The deadline…
There’s $1.5 billion sitting in a fund right now because Anthropic downloaded pirated books to train its Claude chatbot. A federal judge gave final approval on July 20, 2026, closing out the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. If you’re an author or publisher with a book on the list, this is the update that…
There was supposed to be a check in your mailbox by the end of July. Now there isn’t a date at all. Capital One agreed to pay $425 million to settle claims it kept millions of 360 Savings customers earning next to nothing while a nearly identical account paid far more. A federal judge approved…
Federal agencies admitted in court last week that they used keywords — words like “diversity,” “gender,” “vaccine hesitancy,” and “COVID-19” — to screen and terminate research grants. Lawyers for the University of California professors who sued call that admission proof the terminations were illegal. The case, Thakur v. Trump, could decide whether nearly $2 billion…
If you own a 2026 or 2027 Cadillac Vistiq, the third-row seat in your SUV might not do what it’s supposed to if something — or someone — is in its way. GM has recalled every Vistiq built so far over exactly that problem, and dealers are already disabling the feature while a permanent fix…
There’s roughly $7.25 billion sitting in a proposed settlement that this ruling does not touch — and a separate group of Roundup lawsuits that this ruling just gutted. The Supreme Court sided with Monsanto on June 25, 2026, ruling 7-2 that federal law blocks a specific type of Roundup lawsuit. If you have any kind…
If you’ve ever told your employer about a deployment and watched things quietly change afterward — fewer meetings, less communication, a sudden “performance concern” out of nowhere — this case is worth reading closely. A Michigan Air National Guardsman is now suing his former employer, claiming they used his upcoming deployment as the real reason…
A federal magistrate judge in Miami ruled Tuesday that President Trump’s business trust must turn over financial records the BBC is seeking to defend itself in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. The order came out of the case’s first major discovery hearing and opens the door for BBC lawyers to examine finances across more than…
[UPDATED July 21, 2026 — reflects the first payment batch issued July 20, 2026, per Judge Kennelly’s July 2, 2026 distribution order.] if you were an undergraduate at Brown, Columbia, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Rice, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, Yale, or Dartmouth, received need-based financial aid, and filed a claim before December 17, 2024 — you’re…