These are the developments that changed something material: a case’s posture, a claimant’s options, or a deadline. Figures are as reported on the dates shown and are not restated retroactively; where a number later changed, the newer entry says so.
2026
More than 170 cases were pending in the Roblox multidistrict litigation, alongside state attorney general suits in several states. Roblox denies the allegations. Case page →
Up from about 3,571 at the start of June, roughly a dozen new filings a day, with a parallel California state coordinated proceeding running alongside. Case page →
Certiorari denied. The 2023 verdict and $5 million judgment stand and the case is closed, leaving a revived, decades-old claim tried and upheld through the full appellate process. Case page →
The complaint frames the two platforms as complementary components of a single foreseeable process: contact and trust built where children are, then migration to a service with weaker oversight. Both companies deny the allegations. Case page →
Concerning an alleged 2007 incident, filed under a pseudonym. Combs denies the civil allegations against him. Case page →
Indiana brought its action under the state’s deceptive sales statute, a consumer-protection framing that centers the companies’ own safety representations rather than user content. Case page →
With safety reforms attached. West Virginia separately reached an $11 million settlement. State enforcement money funds state programs rather than compensating individual families. Case page →
Public figures suing media organizations must establish actual malice, and such claims are frequently resolved early. Case page →
Denial of a motion to dismiss is not a finding that the claims are true. It means they are legally sufficient as pleaded and the case proceeds to discovery. Case page →
In a case accusing his lawyer and accountant of building the financial infrastructure of the trafficking operation. Before Judge Arun Subramanian in the Southern District of New York. Case page →
Rejecting an appeal from roughly 75 survivors who argued the $2.4 billion plan wrongly blocks them from suing local councils and chartering organizations. The plan is final; Scouting Settlement Trust distributions continue. Case page →
Federal juries found Uber liable in two 2026 bellwether trials, including an $8.5 million verdict in Arizona, after Uber won the first state trial in 2025. Uber has appealed the second verdict, contesting a ruling that it qualifies as a common carrier owing passengers a non-delegable duty of safety. Case page →
2025
Covering survivors not included in the April agreement and bringing the County’s total exposure to roughly $4.8 billion. Case page →
Funding is spread across five fiscal years through reserves, judgment obligation bonds and annual appropriations rather than paid as a lump sum. As of August 2026, very little had reached claimants. Why it is slow →
The largest sexual abuse settlement of its kind in the United States, covering juvenile detention and foster care claims dating back to 1959. Case page →
A defense verdict in the California state proceeding, the last data point before the 2026 federal bellwethers went the other way. Case page →
Entries are drawn from court dockets, settlement administrator notices, bankruptcy filings, and state attorney general announcements. Figures carry the date they were reported. Civil allegations are allegations unless a court has found otherwise, and companies’ denials are stated where their conduct is described. See our editorial process.
