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Workplace Class Action Blog
Workplace Class Action Blog
Covers class action litigation issues, including class certification, discovery and defense strategies. By Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
http://www.workplaceclassaction.com/
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May 24
Seyfarth Shaw Submits Guidance To The EEOC On Its Quality Control Plan "Draft Principles"
Seyfarth Shaw Submits Guidance To The EEOC On Its Quality Control Plan "Draft Principles"By Rebecca Bromet, Christopher DeGroff and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. On May 10, 2013, the EEOC released its Quality Control Plan (“QCP”) draft principles. In an accompanying press release, the EEOC said that the “[Quality… -
May 22
Eighth Circuit Raises Specter Of Constitutionality Issues In TCPA Class Action
Eighth Circuit Raises Specter Of Constitutionality Issues In TCPA Class ActionBy Jennifer A. Riley and Jason P. Stiehl In a much-anticipated decision involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), the Eighth Circuit in Nack v. Walburg, Case No. 11-1460 (8th Cir. May 21, 2012), reversed a… -
May 16
"Historic" Verdict In EEOC v. Hill Country Farms Reduced To $1.6 Million But Litigation Continues As EEOC Seeks Injunctive Relief Against Defunct Company
"Historic" Verdict In EEOC v. Hill Country Farms Reduced To $1.6 Million But Litigation Continues As EEOC Seeks Injunctive Relief Against Defunct CompanyBy Christopher DeGroff, Reema Kapur, and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. We previously reported that the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) secured a verdict of $240 million in its lawsuit against Hill Country Farms last…
Rank this Week: 565
Insurance Class Actions Insider
Insurance Class Actions Insider
Covers class actions against insurance companies. By Robinson & Cole LLP.
http://www.insuranceclassactions.com/
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May 24
Attorneys' Fees For Coupon Settlements Under CAFA Addressed By Ninth Circuit
Attorneys' Fees For Coupon Settlements Under CAFA Addressed By Ninth CircuitUnder the coupon settlement provision of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), do attorneys’ fees always have to be based on the value of the coupons redeemed, or can they be based on a lodestar calculation? The Ninth Circuit… -
May 10
DRI 2013 Class Action Seminar
DRI 2013 Class Action SeminarI’ve had the pleasure of serving on a committee of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) that has put together another blockbuster national class action seminar, being held on July 25, 2013 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in… -
May 9
Life Insurance Retained Asset Account Class Action: Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal
Life Insurance Retained Asset Account Class Action: Seventh Circuit Affirms DismissalI’ve covered before on this blog a series of class actions brought against life insurers involving the use of retained asset accounts, in which checkbooks are provided to beneficiaries of life insurance policies, from which any or all…
Rank this Week: 2805
Impact Litigation Journal
Impact Litigation Journal
Provides commentary and analysis about legal issues relating to class actions and other representative litigation in the areas of consumer and employment law. By Initiative Legal Group APC.
http://impactlitigation.com/
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May 24
Schwab Removes Class Action Waiver from Client Agreement
Schwab Removes Class Action Waiver from Client AgreementSeemingly bucking the trend of corporations fighting to force consumers into individual arbitration to avoid class actions, Charles Schwab Corp., the prominent “discount broker,” has decided to revise its client account agreements… -
May 22
Proposed Overtime Legislation Passes House, Faces Uphill Battle in Senate
Proposed Overtime Legislation Passes House, Faces Uphill Battle in SenateRepublicans in Congress are pushing a bill that would amend a cornerstone provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: overtime pay for more than 40 hours of work in a week. Under the proposal, private sector employees would have the… -
May 20
Bank of America Agrees to Another Massive Settlement Related to Countrywide Acquisition
Bank of America Agrees to Another Massive Settlement Related to Countrywide AcquisitionIt has been said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. For Bank of America, its acquisition of Countrywide has been a persistent melding of farce and tragedy. Earlier this year, Bank of America agreed to pay $11.6…
Rank this Week: 192
Employment Class Action Blog
Employment Class Action Blog
Covers employment class action cases affecting employers. By Baker Hostetler.
http://www.employmentclassactionreport.com/
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May 23
Court Partially Dismisses and Denies Conditional Certification In Tip-Credit Case
Court Partially Dismisses and Denies Conditional Certification In Tip-Credit CasePosted by Greg MersolAnyone who has dined at a restaurant is aware of the importance of tipping, even if the exact rules, like the percentage and how it should be calculated, may be a bit fuzzy at times. From the standpoint of the… -
May 17
California Courts Issue Multiple Decisions for Employers in Class Case
California Courts Issue Multiple Decisions for Employers in Class CasePosted by Greg MersolJust two years ago, a California case declining certification of an action would have been cause for comment. But since then, in 2011 the United States Supreme Court decided Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S.… -
May 13
Court Refuses To Certify Class of Unpaid Student Intern
Court Refuses To Certify Class of Unpaid Student InternPosted by Greg MersolStudent internships can provide worthwhile benefits to the students involved, who gain experience, contacts, and accomplishments to place on their resumes. Employers, too, can benefit from the work and insight of…
Rank this Week: 1186
Class Action Blog
Class Action Blog
Covers consumer fraud, consumer protection, securities and antitrust class actions. By Meiselman, Denlea, Packman, Carton & Eberz.
http://classactionblog.mdpcelaw.com/
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May 23
Top Shelf May Be Bottom Shelf
Top Shelf May Be Bottom ShelfRestaurants love to tell people that “you get what you pay for.” Sometimes this just isn’t true. New Jersey State authorities just busted thirteen different TGI Fridays locations for allegedly passing off cheap… -
Apr 5
Supple Joint Drinks Cannot Rebuild Your Cartilage
Supple Joint Drinks Cannot Rebuild Your CartilageMillions of adults in the United States live with arthritis, a disease involving the breakdown of cartilage in joints, or other orthopedic disorders in which cartilage in joints is broken down over time and causes bones in those joints to… -
Mar 20
Delivery Drivers Must Be Reimbursed
Delivery Drivers Must Be ReimbursedMeiselman, Packman, Nealon, Scialabba & Baker P.C. (MPNSB) continues to actively investigate potential class action lawsuits on behalf of delivery drivers for Dominos, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns and other restaurants or businesses.…
Rank this Week: 1061
Class Action Blog
Class Action Blog
Covers class action litigation in the Southeast and class action arbitrations nationally. By Carlton Fields.
http://www.carltonfields.com/classactionblog/blog.aspx
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May 21
Class Action News of the Day
Class Action News of the DaySprint seeks Supreme Court review of California appeal court decision refusing to compel arbitration of class action alleging improper early termination fees. Supreme Court rejects Nucor Corp. appeal of certification of class of… -
May 6
First Circuit Vacates Denial Of Class Certification In Opinion Concerning Pfizer’s Off-Label Marketing Of Neurontin
First Circuit Vacates Denial Of Class Certification In Opinion Concerning Pfizer’s Off-Label Marketing Of NeurontinThis trio of cases concerned Pfizer’s off-label marketing of Neurontin and plaintiffs’ efforts to recover for the Neurontin prescriptions they had thereby been fraudulently induced to pay. In Kaiser, Plaintiffs’ primary… -
May 3
Best Practices in Reducing Cost and Managing Risk in Class Action Litigation
Best Practices in Reducing Cost and Managing Risk in Class Action LitigationAcross industries, corporate counsel reported they spent $2.1 billion annually on class action lawsuits in 2012. This reflects a modest decline from $2.2 billion in 2011. On average, companies managed 5.1 class actions in 2012, representing a…
Rank this Week: 1666
Wexler Wallace Law Firm Blog
Wexler Wallace Law Firm Blog
Covers legal cases and news.
http://blog.wexlerwallace.com/
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May 21
Hall of Shame: Johnson & Johnson’s License Suspended
Hall of Shame: Johnson & Johnson’s License SuspendedPharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is currently under fire as the subject of thousands of lawsuits involving defective products, including both their metal-on-metal hip implant systems and vaginal mesh. But it seems that is not… -
May 2
Congress Asks SEC to Enforce Consumer Protection
Congress Asks SEC to Enforce Consumer ProtectionCongress does not have the reputation lately of working for the people. Stalemates between Republicans and Democrats continue to halt progress in both bodies of Congress. However, amidst their inability to seemingly get anything done, 37… -
Feb 19
Trio of New Class Certification Decisions in the Seventh Circuit
Trio of New Class Certification Decisions in the Seventh CircuitIn the last few months, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued three opinions on the topic of how trial courts should decide motions for class certification when some questions will require individualized proof. Judge…
Rank this Week: 2319
ClassActionBlawg.com
ClassActionBlawg.com
Features class action news, commentary, and analysis. By Paul Karlsgodt.
http://classactionblawg.com
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May 14
Class Action CLE Recap – Insights on the 2012-13 Supreme Court Term from the Bench and Both Sides of the Bar
Class Action CLE Recap – Insights on the 2012-13 Supreme Court Term from the Bench and Both Sides of the BarThe Class Actions, Mass Torts and Derivative Suits Subcommittee of the Colorado Bar Association, now ably chaired by my BakerHostetler partner, Casie Collignon, held its first CLE luncheon of the year this past… -
May 10
Where’s Your Class Action Insurance Policy?
Where’s Your Class Action Insurance Policy?An article posted by my colleagues Judy Selby and Zack Rosenberg in the BakerHostetler Class Action Lawsuit Defense Blog raises some important issues for any company that could find itself the target of a class action lawsuit. With the… -
Apr 24
Will Recent Supreme Court Decision “Clap Off” the Lights on Data Breach Class Actions?
Will Recent Supreme Court Decision “Clap Off” the Lights on Data Breach Class Actions?Data breach cases are popular targets for class actions these days because a single incident of hacking or theft can expose the sensitive personal or financial information of millions of people at a time. …
Rank this Week: 474
David F. Sugarman
David F. Sugarman
Covers class action cases, civil justice issues and consumer law matters. By David Sugarman.
http://www.davidsugerman.com/
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Nov 13
For those facing collections efforts from Sallie Mae for Western Culinary Inst./Le Cordon Bleu Portland tuition
For those facing collections efforts from Sallie Mae for Western Culinary Inst./Le Cordon Bleu Portland tuitionSo we’ve been hearing a lot from class members about Sallie Mae efforts at collection of debts arising from loans for those who attended Western Culinary Institute and Le Cordon Bleu Portland who are part of the class action against those… -
Sep 13
Moving to dismiss the appeal brought by Career Education Corp and Western Culinary
Moving to dismiss the appeal brought by Career Education Corp and Western CulinaryFor those interested, I’m posting our recent motion to dismiss and motion for reconsideration in Surrett v. Career Education Corp., our consumer fraud class against Career Education Corp for Western Culinary Institute/Le Cordon Bleu… -
Sep 5
Oregon Qarmat Ali vets’ case against KBR headed to trial
Oregon Qarmat Ali vets’ case against KBR headed to trialToday, Judge Papak issued another summary judgment opinion denying KBR’s motions for summary judgment on fraud and negligence. Here is a PDF copy: 512 – opinion & order – fraud and neglig It’s a long opinion, but it provides a really…
Rank this Week: 3413
Jackson on Consumer Class Actions…
Jackson on Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts Blawg
Covers consumer class actions and mass torts from a defense lawyer's perspective. By Russell Jackson.
http://www.consumerclassactionsmasstorts.com/
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Oct 26
What Recent Decisions Can Tell Us About Drafting Class Action Settlement
What Recent Decisions Can Tell Us About Drafting Class Action SettlementYes, I admit that I took a far-too-extended break from this blog without getting your permission. I've missed you. In some other posts, I will report on what I did on my summer vacation. But I'm back, baby! -
Apr 17
Muscle Milk's MTD Powers Through Most of Class Action Complaint
Muscle Milk's MTD Powers Through Most of Class Action ComplaintAs I have noted repeatedly in prior posts, statements about the nutritional value or health effects of food and beverage products often serve as the basis for putative consumer fraud class actions. Increasingly, however, courts are taking a… -
Mar 21
The Global Warming Blame Game: District Court Thwarts Comer's Second Coming
The Global Warming Blame Game: District Court Thwarts Comer's Second ComingI've previously opined on this blog and elsewhere that global warming litigation -- at least cases in which individuals seek damages from companies that emit greenhouse gasses -- has no leg to stand on because causation is so attenuated and…
Rank this Week: 4810
Mass Tort & Class Action Blog
Mass Tort & Class Action Blog
Cover class actions regarding consumer products, food, and medical devices. By Calvo Fisher & Jacob LLP.
http://www.masstortclassaction.com/
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Jan 12
CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT CLASS ACTION CASES TO WATCH IN 2012
CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT CLASS ACTION CASES TO WATCH IN 2012There are a number of cases pending before the California Supreme Court that should be on everyone’s watch list this year. This article summarizes the top seven. -
Dec 29
California Supreme Court Clarifies Test For Exempt Employee
California Supreme Court Clarifies Test For Exempt EmployeeThe California Supreme Court issued an important decision today clarifying the test to determine whether employees should be treated as exempt from overtime requirements, in Harris v. Superior Court (Liberty Mutual Insurance Company). The… -
Dec 19
FDA Panel Recommends Changes To Transvaginal Mesh Approval Proce
FDA Panel Recommends Changes To Transvaginal Mesh Approval ProceWomen suing for injuries arising from implantation of surgical mesh used for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence received validation from an FDA advisory panel in September 2011. After two days of hearings,
Rank this Week: 3403
San Francisco Overtime Attorney…
San Francisco Overtime Attorney Blog
Covers class action cases involving overtime and minimum wage, meals and rest breaks, and independent contractor misclassification. By the Law Offices of James M. Sitkin.
http://www.sanfranciscoovertimeattorneysblog.com/
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Jul 14
Employer Couldn't Enforce One-sided Arbitration Clause in Employer Handbook
Employer Couldn't Enforce One-sided Arbitration Clause in Employer HandbookThe Court of Appeal in Zullo v. Superior Court (Inland Publishing Co.) (6th District, July 12, 2011) has ordered the Santa Clara County Superior Court to vacate an order that had granted an employer's motion to require an employee, Sharon… -
May 23
Payment Tied to Number of Cars Sold Independent of Price Per Unit Still a Commission for Purposes of California Overtime Exemption
Payment Tied to Number of Cars Sold Independent of Price Per Unit Still a Commission for Purposes of California Overtime ExemptionCalifornia Wage Order 7 regulates mercantile industries. Like other Wage Orders, its overtime protections do not extend to any employee whose earnings exceed one and one-half times the minimum wage if more than half of that employee's… -
May 19
Brinkermanship Gone Astray: A Persistent Division of the California Court of Appeal Continues Publishing Pro-Employer Meal Break Decisions as Fast as the California Supreme Court Orders Them Depublished
Brinkermanship Gone Astray: A Persistent Division of the California Court of Appeal Continues Publishing Pro-Employer Meal Break Decisions as Fast as the California Supreme Court Orders Them DepublishedThe California Supreme Court is currently reviewing a spate of Court of Appeal decisions, including Brinker Restaurant v. S.C. (review granted October 22, 2008), that held a California employer must provide, not ensure, an employee receives…
Rank this Week: 4211
Consumer Advocate Legal Update
Consumer Advocate Legal Update
Discusses consumer law, class action lawsuits, advertising law, business law, copyright, and other topics. By Khorrami, LLP.
http://www.consumeradvocatelegalupdate.com/
Rank this Week: 3206