O’Reilly Auto Parts Text Settlement: Up to $22 Per Person

O’Reilly Automotive has settled a class action alleging it sent marketing texts to phone numbers that had been reassigned to new users and were registered on the National Do-Not-Call Registry. Approved claims pay up to $22.00 per person, and the deadline is September 28, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PST. You need the claim ID from your postcard or email notice to file. The company denies it did anything wrong.

Table of Contents

• What is the O’Reilly text settlement about?
• Who qualifies?
• How much can you get?
• What proof do you need?
• What is the deadline?
• How to file a claim
• Opting out or objecting
• What happens next?

What is the O’Reilly text settlement about?

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.

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. 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: 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, so the pro rata reduction 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.

What proof do you need?

You do not need screenshots of the texts, phone bills or any other documentation of what you received. What you do need is the claim ID 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 is a proof-required settlement even though no receipts are requested.

Beyond the claim ID, the 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; and your signature and date.

If a notice never reached you, or you no longer have it, use the contact page on the official settlement website to ask the 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 — later than the claim deadline, which is unusual. A request for exclusion must be mailed to the administrator postmarked no later than that date. An objection must be filed with the court by that date, with a copy sent to the administrator, class counsel and the defendant’s counsel postmarked no later than the same date.

How to 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 administrator at the address printed on the form. Whichever method you use, keep a copy of what you submit.

Opting out or objecting

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 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 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.

What happens next?

The final approval hearing is scheduled for November 5, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. CT, by Zoom. The court will decide whether the settlement is fair, reasonable and adequate, consider objections, and rule on class counsel’s fee request.

No final approval order has been entered and no payment date has been announced. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need the texts or my phone bill to file?

No. No screenshots, phone bills or other documentation of the messages are requested. What you do need is the claim ID from your postcard or email notice, which is the single required field on the online portal.

I never got a notice. Can I still file?

Possibly. The notice says 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. Use the contact page on the official settlement website to ask the administrator whether your number is on the class list and how to get a claim ID.

What does “reassigned” mean here?

It means the carrier gave you a phone number that someone else used before. The case is built on that fact: 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.

I shopped at O’Reilly. Does that disqualify me?

It can. The notice states that if you made an online or in-store purchase from O’Reilly in the 18 months preceding the text messages, your claim may be denied, and the claim form asks you to attest that you did not.

Will I actually get $22?

Up to $22 is the stated figure, and it may be reduced pro rata under an aggregate cap of $18,842,577 that covers class payments, fees, costs and the service award together. With roughly 562,465 class members, the cap only bites at a claim rate far above what these cases typically see.

Sources

• O’Reilly Auto Parts Text Settlement — Up to $22 on OpenClassActions.com — the full settlement breakdown, including the aggregate-cap math and the claim-form walkthrough.
• Official settlement website — OReillyRNDSettlement.com — claim portal, documents section and the contact page, administered by Kroll.
• Bryan v. O’Reilly Automotive, Inc., Circuit Court for LaSalle County, Illinois — settlement agreement and the June 29, 2026 preliminary approval order.

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