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Hyron Andrews Death: Quick Facts South African rugby player Hyron Andrews died at age 31 on October 16, 2026, after being found unresponsive in a shower cubicle at the hotel where the Johannesburg Lions were staying in France. His death came one day before the Lions were due to play La Rochelle in their opening…
On October 13, 2026, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California granted final approval of Google’s $68 million Google Assistant privacy settlement and approved $22,666,666.70 in attorney fees for class counsel. That is the full one-third of the fund the lawyers requested, even though the judge called one attorney’s proposed…
Conduent has signed a proposed $80 million settlement of the class action over its 2025 data breach, which involved Social Security numbers, medical information and other personal data of about 62 million people. The agreement was filed in federal court in New Jersey on October 16, 2026, and the judge has not approved it yet….
On October 15, 2026, Chief U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. granted final approval to settlements totaling $359,925,000 in cash, plus business-practice restrictions and cooperation obligations. The settlements resolve rent-price-fixing claims against 41 landlord and property-management defendants in In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II), Case No. 3:23-md-03071, in the U.S….
A California consumer says Bucked Up’s Lightly Carbonated Protein drinks contain less protein than the 25 grams printed on the can. His lawsuit, Ruchman v. DAS Labs LLC d/b/a Bucked Up, Case No. 2:26-cv-05871, is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Quick takeaway: This is a proposed class action,…
Employees of Ardent Health entities who were paid late or incorrectly after the 2021 Kronos outage may be able to collect money from a $2.9 million wage settlement. The case is Hill v. AHS Management Company, Inc., No. 3:23-cv-01045, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. This is not an automatic-payment…
Heather Ann Textor, of Lowell, Indiana, has been charged with 42 felonies and three misdemeanors after a three-year Indiana State Police (ISP) investigation. Police allege she gave clients of a Merrillville law firm fake expungement orders with forged judges’ signatures and diverted some client payments to her personal accounts. She worked at the firm, Weiss,…
A Suffolk County Superior Court jury in Boston awarded former MIT professor David Sabatini $6 million, plus interest, on October 16, 2026. It found that Kristin Knouse defamed him and interfered with his ability to make a living. The Boston Globe described the verdict as a stark rejection of Knouse’s claim that Sabatini subjected her…
Borrowers who took out a loan from the online lender Bright Lending (Aaniiih Nakoda Finance, LLC) may be entitled to debt cancellation, a cash payment of at least $15, or both, under a $15 million class action settlement. The case is Dixon v. Gatzke, No. 1:24-cv-11834, before Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in the U.S. District…