This settlement resolves claims that O'Reilly Automotive sent marketing texts to phone numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry after those numbers had been reassigned to new users. If two or more O'Reilly texts landed on a Do-Not-Call number that was reassigned to you between April 15, 2021 and June 29, 2026, an approved claim is worth up to $22 — and you need the Claim ID from your notice to file.
Current Status
Claims are open. The deadline to file is September 28, 2026 — online claims must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. PST on that date, and mailed Claim Forms must be postmarked no later than that date. The Court granted preliminary approval on June 29, 2026, and the Final Approval Hearing is scheduled for November 5, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. CT by Zoom. No final approval order has been entered and no payment date had been announced as of August 2, 2026. If you received a postcard or email notice, you already have the Claim ID you need to file online.What Changed Recently?
The case that produced this settlement, Bryan v. O'Reilly Automotive, Inc., was filed on or about May 28, 2026 in the Circuit Court for LaSalle County, Illinois. It followed an earlier proposed class action filed against O'Reilly on April 16, 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana over calls to numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry. According to the Settlement Agreement, the parties mediated on April 24, 2026 with a private mediator, reached terms, and then moved the resolution into Illinois state court, where the federal plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his complaint.Judge Troy D. Holland granted preliminary approval on June 29, 2026, which set the class period, authorized the notice program, and opened the claims process. Kroll Settlement Administration began sending postcard and email notices to the class list O'Reilly produced. The company denies it did anything wrong; the Notice describes the settlement as a compromise to end the lawsuit and states that the Court has not decided who is right.
Who Qualifies?
The Settlement Class covers all people throughout the United States whose telephone numbers were registered on the National Do-Not-Call Registry for at least 30 days, and who received more than one text message from or on behalf of O'Reilly Automotive within any 12-month period after the telephone number was reassigned to them, from April 15, 2021 through June 29, 2026 (the date of preliminary approval).Three elements have to line up. The number had to be on the Do-Not-Call Registry for at least 30 days. You had to receive more than one O'Reilly text within a single 12-month window. And the texts had to arrive after the number was reassigned to you — meaning the carrier had given you a number that someone else used before. That last element is what the case is built on: a prior holder of the number may have agreed to receive O'Reilly messages, but that agreement does not carry over to whoever gets the number next.
The Settlement Agreement puts the class at approximately 562,465 people. O'Reilly's records identified the class list, so most class members received a postcard or an email. The Notice adds that you may still be a class member even if no notice reached you, as long as your number appears in the calling records obtained for the case.
One exclusion matters more than the rest. The Notice states that if you made an online or in-store purchase from O'Reilly Automotive in the 18 months preceding the text messages, your claim may be denied. The Claim Form turns that into an attestation: you check a box confirming you have not purchased from O'Reilly online or in store within the last 18 months and did not otherwise consent to receive its texts. Also excluded are O'Reilly itself, class members who opt out, and the judges assigned to the case and their staff and families.
How Much Can You Get?
The Notice describes a cash payment of up to $22.00 per person for an Approved Claim. That figure is an estimate, not a guarantee — the Notice and the Settlement Agreement both state the amount may be reduced on a pro rata basis.The reduction mechanism is an Aggregate Cap of $18,842,577. That cap is the ceiling on everything O'Reilly pays under the settlement: the service award, the costs of settlement administration, any attorney fees and costs the Court awards, and the cash payments to every class member with an Approved Claim. If the total of those four categories would exceed the cap, the class payments are cut pro rata to fit. Class Counsel has said it intends to request up to $6,280,859 for attorney fees, costs, and expenses, which the Court will rule on at the Final Approval Hearing. With roughly 562,465 people in the class, $22 for every single class member would come to about $12.4 million in class payments; the pro rata reduction therefore only bites at a claim rate far above what these cases typically see.
Only one claim per class member per telephone number will be validated as an Approved Claim. If you were the regular user of two qualifying numbers, the Claim Form has space to list both.
Payments are issued by check or by an electronic method the parties agree on. Settlement checks are valid for a limited window after issuance and are canceled if not cashed in time; the Settlement Agreement sets out a reissue process for checks that are returned or go stale, and provides that funds from checks that are never cashed revert to O'Reilly.
What Proof or Claim ID Is Required?
You do not need screenshots of the texts, phone bills, or any other documentation of what you received. What you do need is the identifier the administrator assigned you.The online claim portal opens on a login screen with a single required field: Claim ID. The mailed paper Claim Form has the same gate, labeled Identification Number (Required). Because filing is conditioned on a code that only appears in the mailed or emailed notice, this page treats the settlement as Proof Required: Yes even though no receipts are requested.
Beyond the Claim ID, the Claim Form asks for your name, mailing address, and a preferred phone number; each telephone number you were the regular user or subscriber of at some point between April 15, 2021 and June 29, 2026; the approximate month and year you started using each number; the approximate month and year you received O'Reilly texts on it; the no-purchase attestation described above; and your signature and date.
If a notice never reached you, or you no longer have it, use the Contact Us page on the official settlement website to ask the Settlement Administrator whether your number is on the class list and how to get a Claim ID. Do not guess at a number — an invalid or incomplete Claim Form can be rejected.
What Is the Deadline?
Claim Forms are due September 28, 2026. The Notice specifies that the deadline to file online is 11:59 p.m. PST on that date, and that Claim Forms sent by mail must be postmarked on or before the same date.The opt-out and objection deadlines are both October 6, 2026. A Request for Exclusion must be mailed to the Settlement Administrator postmarked no later than that date. An objection must be filed with the Court by that date, with a copy sent to the Settlement Administrator, Settlement Class Counsel, and Defendant's Counsel postmarked no later than the same date.
How Do You File a Claim?
Filing online is the fastest route. Open the official settlement website, OReillyRNDSettlement.com, go to the Submit Claim page, and enter the Claim ID printed on your postcard or included in your email notice. From there the form walks through class member information, payment selection, confirmation of class membership (your qualifying numbers and dates), and the required affirmations, including the no-purchase attestation and your electronic signature.If you prefer paper, the Claim Form can be downloaded from the Documents section of the settlement website and mailed to the Settlement Administrator at the address printed on the form. Whichever method you use, keep a copy of what you submit.
What If You Want Out — or Want to Object?
Opting out means you get no payment but keep the right to sue O'Reilly on your own over the claims this settlement resolves. A Request for Exclusion has to be mailed to the Settlement Administrator and must include the case name and number, your full name and current address, your personal signature, and a statement that you do not want to participate. Opt-outs cannot be submitted by phone, by email, or through the settlement website, and one person cannot opt out on behalf of others.Objecting is different: you stay in the class and tell the Court why you think the settlement should not be approved. A written objection has to be filed with the Court by October 6, 2026 and must include the case name and number, your full name and mailing address, the specific grounds for the objection with any supporting documents, the identity of any attorney representing you, a list of other class settlements you or your attorney have objected to in the past five years, whether you plan to appear at the Final Approval Hearing, information showing you are a class member, and your signature.
If you do nothing, you stay in the class, receive no payment, and give up the right to sue O'Reilly over the claims the settlement releases.
What Happens Next?
The claims period closes September 28, 2026, and the opt-out and objection windows close October 6, 2026. The Final Approval Hearing is set for November 5, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. CT by Zoom, where the Court will consider whether the settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate, and will rule on Class Counsel's request for fees, costs, and a service award. The Notice cautions that the hearing may be moved without additional mailed notice, so the settlement website is the place to check the date.Under the Settlement Agreement, payments go out only after the Court grants final approval and after any appeals are resolved. A hearing being held is not the same as approval being granted, and approval being granted is not the same as payments being released. No payment date had been announced as of August 2, 2026.
The settlement also includes a non-monetary term: within 30 days of the Effective Date, O'Reilly or a vendor acting on its behalf will use the Reassigned Numbers Database — the FCC-designated tool that lets callers check whether a number has been given to a new subscriber before sending to it.
Sources and Verification
• Official settlement website — Bryan v. O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.• Long Form Notice, Settlement Agreement and Release, and Claim Form (PDF)
• Preliminary Approval Order entered June 29, 2026, Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, LaSalle County, Illinois, Case No. 2026CH000016
• FCC — Reassigned Numbers Database
• National Do Not Call Registry (FTC)
Questions
What does "reassigned number" mean in this settlement?
A reassigned number is a phone number that a carrier gave to a new subscriber after a previous user gave it up. The class here is limited to people who received O'Reilly texts after the number was reassigned to them, so the relevant question is whether the texts arrived after you started using that number, not whether an earlier holder of the number ever signed up for O'Reilly messages.
I shopped at O'Reilly. Does that disqualify me?
It can. The Notice states that a claim may be denied if the claimant made an online or in-store purchase from O'Reilly Automotive in the 18 months preceding the text messages. The Claim Form asks you to check a box attesting that you did not make a purchase in that window or otherwise consent to receive text messages, so a claimant who did shop with O'Reilly in that period cannot truthfully make the attestation.
Can I file for more than one phone number?
The Settlement Agreement provides that only one claim per Settlement Class Member per telephone number will be validated as an Approved Claim. The Claim Form has room to list more than one number you were the regular user or subscriber of during the class period, along with the approximate month and year you started using each number and the month and year you received texts on it.
Could the $22 payment be smaller than advertised?
Yes. The Notice describes $22.00 as an estimated per-person value and states it may be reduced on a pro rata basis so that the service award, administration costs, attorney fees and costs, and all class payments together do not exceed the Aggregate Cap of $18,842,577. The final per-claimant amount is not known until the claims period closes and the administrator finishes reviewing claims.
I think I am in the class but never received a notice. What can I do?
The Notice says you may still be a Settlement Class Member if your phone number appears in the calling records obtained for the case, even if no postcard or email reached you. Use the Contact Us page on the official settlement website to ask the Settlement Administrator whether your number is on the class list and how to obtain a Claim ID.
When would payments go out?
Under the Settlement Agreement, payments are made only after the Court grants final approval and after any appeals are resolved. The Final Approval Hearing is scheduled for November 5, 2026. No payment date has been announced as of August 2, 2026.
