Princess Cruises Washington CEMA Lawsuit: New Filing Oct 21, 2026
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Princess Cruises Washington CEMA Lawsuit: New Filing on October 21, 2026 — But the Motion to Dismiss Is Still Undecided, and There Is No Settlement or Claim Form
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What happened on October 21, 2026
The short answer for anyone who saw the princess cruises washington cema lawsuit in the news: a new paper was filed, but nobody is getting money from it. On October 21, 2026 a Notice of Supplemental Authority — docket entry 22 — was filed in Martinson v. Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. in federal court in Seattle. The court’s public feed logged it at 01:00:51 GMT on October 22, which is the evening of October 21 in Washington. We cover who sued, what the emails said and how the law works on our Princess Cruises lawsuit page; this article is only about where the case stands now.
A notice of supplemental authority is a short filing that points the judge to a court decision issued after the briefs were written. It is not a ruling, a settlement or a deadline. We could not read the document itself: it is not free on PACER, and CourtListener lists it as not available. So we do not know which decision it cites or which side filed it, and we are not going to guess. Two days earlier, on October 19, 2026, the docket shows a minute order whose text is also not public. On October 1, 2026 Judge Tana Lin signed a stipulated protective order (Dkt. 19) and an agreement on discovery of electronically stored information (Dkt. 20) — routine steps that let the parties exchange documents while the dismissal motion waits.
Who could get money, how much and when
As of October 22, 2026, nobody. There is no settlement, no fund, no administrator and no payment date on the docket. The complaint asks for “the greater of actual or statutory damages,” interest and an injunction for a proposed class of “Washington residents who received promotional emails from Princess advertising sales or discounts on Princess Products.” No class has been certified.
The dollar figure people quote comes from the statute, not from a check. Today’s RCW 19.190.040 says damages to a recipient “are $100, or actual damages, whichever is greater.” Before HB 2274, signed March 23, 2026, the figure was $500. The amendment applies to “all causes of action commenced on or after June 11, 2026” — and this complaint was stamped filed in King County Superior Court on June 9, 2026, two days earlier. Which number governs, and whether the case survives at all, is up to the court.
What to do now, and the dates that matter
There is nothing to file and no deadline to meet. If you live in Washington and get Princess promotional emails, keep them; the complaint quotes subject lines such as “Don’t miss up to $700 instant savings” and “Last call for up to $1,000 instant savings,” and alleges they misstated when sales ended and how large the discounts were. Princess has not admitted any of that. If you live outside Washington, this case is not about you — CEMA protects Washington residents.
The dates on the record: the complaint was filed June 9, 2026; Princess removed it to federal court on July 10, 2026; Princess moved to dismiss on July 29, 2026 (Dkt. 13); the plaintiff responded on August 19 (Dkt. 14); Princess replied on August 26 (Dkt. 15). The parties filed a joint status report on September 14 and stipulated motions on September 29. The next real event is Judge Lin’s decision on the motion to dismiss. No hearing date or decision date has been announced.
Is a Princess settlement email real or a scam?
As of October 22, 2026, any message telling you to “claim” money, credit or a refund from a Princess Cruises email lawsuit does not come from this case — there is no settlement to claim from. That matters here more than usual, because the lawsuit is about marketing emails, and a fake “class action credit” email can look exactly like a Princess promotion.
If a settlement ever happens, it will come with a court-approved notice that names the case, Case No. 2:26-cv-02433, an administrator and a deadline, and the same information will appear on the court docket. Do not enter a card number, cruise booking login or password to “join” this lawsuit. Check any message against the docket and our case page before you click.
Why the case matters, and who owns Princess
This is one of a long line of Washington subject-line suits. After the Washington Supreme Court’s 2025 decision in Brown v. Old Navy, a Cooley client alert counted more than 100 CEMA lawsuits in the following 12 months, and a June 2026 Morgan Lewis note put the number at nearly 200 class actions. The legislature then cut damages and added a knowledge requirement. Because Princess’s dismissal motion is fully briefed, any new decision from another CEMA case can be flagged to Judge Lin — which is what a notice of supplemental authority does.
Which company owns Princess Cruise Lines? The defendant is Princess Cruise Lines Ltd.; a June 3, 2019 U.S. Justice Department release describes Princess and “its parent, Carnival.” This email case is separate from the cruise contract. Princess’s passage contract has a class action waiver in Section 17, but this suit is brought for people who received emails, and no court in this case has said whether that waiver plays any role.
