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28 Jan 2021, 9:42 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Jan. 26, 2021), plaintiff George Moore alleged in the putative class action that the Defendant caused telemarketing calls to be made to his phone without consent, in violation of the TCPA. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 3:15 pm by Deepak Gupta
 Apart from the Court's intense interest in all things class action this term (see, e.g., Wal-Mart v. [read post]
30 May 2013, 2:02 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
This issue is of significance to employers in workplace class action litigation, since interpretations of the CAFA is important to defense strategy in removal situations. [read post]
30 May 2013, 2:02 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
This issue is of significance to employers in workplace class action litigation, since interpretations of the CAFA is important to defense strategy in removal situations. [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 6:43 am by Joy Waltemath
A federal district court in Illinois granted Illinois Bell’s motion to decertify a class of employees in an FLSA collective action to the extent the plaintiffs claimed efficiency pressure forced them to work off-the-clock. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 7:09 am
(Lord knows, we can use all the help we can get.)So we welcome aboard our new visitors who came through this link from Russell Jackson's Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts blog.We're also delighted to be spared the effort of writing up Williams v. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 4:28 pm by rhall@initiativelegal.com
” One wonders, though, whether the Scalia-led arbitration crusade even views class actions as “just one legal vehicle,” or aims to consign class actions to something even less significant. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 3:26 am
It's published by Paul Karlsgodt, a partner in the firm's Denver office, and a member of the Class Action Defense practice group. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 7:03 am by Wystan M. Ackerman
  If there are fewer employment class actions, and fewer class actions against banks and credit card companies, and perhaps even against product manufacturers, then the plaintiffs’ class action bar will either largely give up their line of work (which seems unlikely), or they will focus more intently on the industries that have not adopted arbitration. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 10:23 am by webmaster
In addition to generating caselaw bearing on whether large class action damages constitute “annihilating” penalties that render individual actions superior to class treatment, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) also defines the common term willfulness, a measure of conduct with considerable application beyond FACTA consumer class actions, or wage-and-hour class actions. [read post]
1 May 2012, 5:04 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Employing Proactive Strategies Rather than waiting to attempt to defeat a class action by analogizing it to Wal-Mart or distinguishing it from McReynolds, employers can take proactive steps to thwart a potential class action. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 7:03 am by <a href=''>Kara M. Maciel</a>
  We and other defense counsel often raise constitutionality defenses to PAGA claims and raise those arguments at various stages of the cases. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 11:52 am by [email protected]
The post Lawmakers Call for More Action on Baylor University Rape Claims appeared first on Dallas Criminal Defense Attorneys |State & Federal Lawyers. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 11:52 am by [email protected]
The post Lawmakers Call for More Action on Baylor University Rape Claims appeared first on Dallas Criminal Defense Attorneys |State & Federal Lawyers. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 8:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
The decision also does not address the fairness defenses that are available to consumers under general state contract law. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 2:21 am by Andrew Trask
Three plaintiffs filed an FLSA class action (and collective action) against DirectSat USA, LLC. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 1:57 pm by Wystan M. Ackerman
Dukes to hold that a defendant to a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) class action has no right to raise statutory affirmative defenses on an individual basis if the class seeks ‘only’ monetary relief; and (2) whether a district court can conclude that the Rule 23(a)(2) commonality requirement is satisfied when a class claims the denial of overtime pay, without resolving whether dissimilarities in the class would… [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 7:38 am
&nbsp; The defendant also had asserted the defense of primary jurisdiction, asking the court to stay proceedings pending action by the FDA. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 8:00 am by Greg Mersol
After years of additional litigation, Chipotle moved to decertify the collective class and the plaintiffs moved to certify several smaller state law class actions. [read post]