Legal News

What Are the Current Venmo Class Action Lawsuits About? Two active class action investigations are targeting Venmo in January 2026: one focuses on credit card companies charging unexpected “cash advance fees” when users send money through Venmo (despite these transactions not being traditional cash advances), and another alleges Venmo violated Washington State’s Commercial Electronic Mail…

What’s the Flo App Lawsuit About? Three major tech companies—Google, Flo Health, and Flurry—agreed to pay a combined $59.5 million settlement after a class action lawsuit alleged the Flo period-tracking app secretly shared users’ most intimate reproductive health data with third parties between November 2016 and February 2019. The preliminary settlement approval was filed September…

What’s the Richmond Ballet Lawsuit About? A former Richmond Ballet student filed an 85-page lawsuit on December 18, 2025, seeking $11.5 million and alleging she endured years of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse while training at the ballet from age 8 through her teenage years between 2007 and 2015. This marks the third major lawsuit…

What’s the Drake RICO Lawsuit About? Two Virginia consumers filed a federal RICO lawsuit on December 31, 2025, accusing Drake, streamer Adin Ross, and crypto casino Stake.us of operating an illegal gambling scheme where Drake allegedly received $100 million annually to promote the platform, then used money transferred through Stake’s “tipping” feature to pay bot…

What’s the AT&T Settlement About? AT&T agreed to pay $177 million to settle class action lawsuits over two separate 2024 data breaches that exposed personal information of approximately 73 million current and former customers. Eligible customers can receive up to $7,500—$5,000 for the March 2024 breach and $2,500 for the July 2024 breach—depending on which…

What’s the Amazon Prime Settlement About? The Federal Trade Commission secured a historic $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon in September 2025 after alleging the company used “dark patterns”—manipulative design tricks—to enroll tens of millions of consumers in Prime subscriptions without their consent and then made canceling nearly impossible. The settlement includes $1 billion in penalties…

What’s the Pepsi-Walmart Lawsuit About? Three consumers—Martin Gelbspan, Aaron Hinds, and Alexander Govea—filed a class action lawsuit on December 15, 2025, in federal court alleging Pepsi and Walmart conspired in a price-fixing scheme lasting nearly a decade. The lawsuit claims Pepsi sold products to Walmart at wholesale prices lower than competitors, forcing shoppers at other…

Rust-Oleum faces new false advertising lawsuits filed in November 2024 alleging its ‘2X Coverage’ spray paint doesn’t provide twice the coverage as claimed, despite a 2017 settlement where consumers received only $3-$6 each. The new lawsuit (Andreozzi v. Rust-Oleum, Case No. 1:24-cv-11710, N.D. Illinois) seeks damages after the company allegedly generated over $1 billion from…

Mountain West Food Group recalled 2,855 pounds of Forward Farms grass-fed ground beef (16-oz vacuum-sealed packages with “USE OR FREEZE BY 01/13/26 EST 2083”) sold in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Washington due to E. coli O26 contamination. If you have this product, throw it away immediately or return it. Do not eat it—E….