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(Subscription required) A federal judge consolidated 13 Salesforce data breach class actions in Northern California, streamlining claims over alleged negligent data security after a Kentucky court denied multidistrict litigation. 

A divided panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that a District Court judge did not err in granting a motion for class certification in an action asserting that Nestlé USA Inc. used deceptive practices, in violation of California law, by labeling its chocolate products as “sustainably” or “responsibly” sourced when they were purportedly produced using child labor and deforestation practices.

The Supreme Court that will hear arguments Tuesday on state laws banning transgender females from girls’ and women’s sports teams includes five of the justices who ruled in 2020 that federal law prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.