Is There a Class Action Against Roku in 2026?

Updated August 11, 2026 · By Class Action Buddy

The short answer: the class actions keep being sent to arbitration — and the one that survives was brought by a state

Yes, people have filed class actions against Roku over children’s privacy. Two of them were ordered into arbitration in 2026 — by two different judges, in two different districts, four months apart. That is the answer to “can I join one” for most readers.

The case that is still standing was not brought by a customer at all. It was brought by the Michigan Attorney General, and a state is not bound by the terms of service you agreed to when you set up the box.

What the record actually shows

E.A.R.R. v. Roku, Inc. went first. On 6 February 2026 Judge Jesus G. Bernal in the Central District of California granted Roku’s motion to compel arbitration and vacated the hearing that had been set. The docket was terminated the same day.

A. v. Roku, Inc. followed. Judge Noel Wise in the Northern District of California held a hearing on 29 April 2026 with argument from both sides, and on 14 May 2026 entered an order granting the motion to compel arbitration.

Two judges, two districts, same result, and neither needed us to quote a contract at you: the enforcement is on the record. A third case, Moses v. Roku, Inc., ended in a notice of voluntary dismissal on 1 June 2026 without reaching that stage.

Nessel v. Roku, Inc. is the exception, and the reason is structural. It is brought in the Eastern District of Michigan by the state’s Attorney General, so the arbitration clause a consumer accepts has nothing to grip. The court ruled on a motion to dismiss on 31 March 2026 and the docket was still active on 26 May 2026. A state enforcement action can change a company’s conduct, but it is not a class action and there is no claim form attached to it.

Cases on the public record

Each of these was matched on case name in the federal docket on 11 August 2026, and each links to its own record so you can read it yourself. Docket numbers repeat across districts, so a number on its own proves nothing — the case name is what identifies a case.

Where the status comes from. These are read from each docket’s own entries, not from a summary elsewhere. Two limits are worth knowing. The public docket mirror does not carry the text of every entry, so where an entry has no description this page says what it can date rather than invent what it said. And a case with no termination date on file is unknown, not open — a blank field is not a finding.

What we removed, and why. An earlier version of this page listed a “children’s data-privacy class action”, a “Florida AG children’s-privacy settlement” and “defective software-update / product suits”. Not one carried a case name, a court or a docket number, and none could be matched to a federal docket. They are gone. A claim you cannot check is worth less than no claim at all.

What you can actually do

1. Read the dispute-resolution section of Roku’s terms before assuming a class action is open to you. Two courts enforced Roku’s arbitration clause in 2026. Whatever the clause says, judges are giving effect to it, which is the practical answer to whether you can join a group claim.

2. Do not read a state Attorney General case as a claim you can file. The Michigan action is enforcement by a government office. It can result in penalties or changes to how the company behaves; it does not create a fund, an administrator or a deadline for you.

3. If a settlement ever opens, the evidence is your account and your device. Purchase records, the account email and which profiles were used on the device are what a children’s-privacy claims process would ask about.

4. Ignore anyone charging to “sign you up”. Joining a class costs nothing and filing in a real settlement is free.

How we checked this page

Verified on 11 August 2026. Cases were found by searching the federal docket for Roku’s corporate name, then each docket was opened and its entries read for the events that decide a class action — certification, dismissal, settlement approval, remand. Roku’s terms page serves only a JavaScript shell to an automated request, so rather than quote a clause we could not read, this page shows two courts enforcing one, with the dates and the docket numbers. We publish what the record shows and say plainly where it stops.

Class Action Buddy is a self-service tool: it fills in claim forms for settlements that have reached the claims stage so you can review, sign and submit them yourself. We do not file on anyone’s behalf, and we are not lawyers — nothing here is legal advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I join a class action against Roku in 2026?

Probably not. Two children’s-privacy class actions were ordered into arbitration in 2026 — E.A.R.R. v. Roku on 6 February and A. v. Roku on 14 May — by judges in two different districts. Arbitration is individual by design, so there is no class to join.

What is the Michigan case against Roku?

Nessel v. Roku, Inc. is an action by the Michigan Attorney General in the Eastern District of Michigan. The court ruled on a motion to dismiss on 31 March 2026 and the case was still active in May 2026. It is government enforcement, not a class action, and there is nothing to file on it.

Why does a state case survive when the consumer cases do not?

Because a state Attorney General never agreed to Roku’s terms of service. An arbitration clause binds the people who accepted it; it does not bind a government office bringing its own enforcement action.

Does being sent to arbitration mean the claim was wrong?

No. It means the court decided the dispute belongs in arbitration rather than in court, before anyone weighed the merits. The claim can still be pursued — individually, in front of an arbitrator, one person at a time.

Is there a Roku settlement accepting claims?

Not one on this page. A settlement becomes claimable only when a court approves it and an administrator opens a process with a published deadline. None of the cases listed here has reached that point.