Legal News

The CFPB won a $2.7 billion judgment against Lexington Law and CreditRepair.com for charging illegal upfront fees and deceptive marketing. Between December 5, 2024, and January 6, 2025, JND Legal Administration is mailing $1.8 billion in refund checks to 4.3 million affected consumers who paid for credit repair services between July 21, 2011, and August…

The $10 million Nelnet data breach settlement compensates 2.5 million student loan borrowers whose personal information was exposed in a July-August 2022 cyberattack. If you received a breach notification from Nelnet, Edfinancial, or OSLA, you can claim a pro-rata cash payment, up to $5,000 for documented losses, or up to $100 for time spent, plus…

A class action lawsuit filed in California federal court alleges Olipop falsely marketed its prebiotic sodas as delivering significant digestive health benefits when they’re essentially “sugared water” with negligible prebiotic effectiveness. The lawsuit claims consumers paid premium prices ($2-3 per can versus $0.50 for regular soda) for health benefits they never received, potentially qualifying thousands…

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…