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21 Sep 2017, 10:23 am by Arthur F. Coon
., the project has some feature distinguishing it from others in the exempt class, such as size or location), and (2) “a reasonable possibility of a significant effect [on the environment] due to [those] unusual circumstance[s]. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 3:27 am by Lyle Denniston
  The draft itself had become deeply controversial because of who had to go: it was, in the main, the poor and the middle-class youths, mostly those who had only a high-school education and many who were minorities. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 3:55 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  One thing I can say with certainty, though, is that in 27 years of fiduciary liability underwriting, I have not seen this pace of serious, potentially severe class action litigation. [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 4:30 pm by David Kravets
Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Uber is fighting a proposed class-action lawsuit that says it secretly over charges riders and under pays drivers. [read post]
17 Sep 2017, 4:08 pm by Kevin LaCroix
With developments in Australia law pertaining to the use of litigation funding in the class action context, Australia is now “the most attractive jurisdiction for class action funding in the world. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 1:40 pm by Mark Tabakman
I have blogged (somewhat incessantly, I admit) about manager FLSA class actions and what the line(s) of defense are for the employer in these cases, and how to defeat these cases. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 12:59 pm by Bowen "Bo" Ranney
 Within the Order, Judge Preska noted “[t]his case presents an unusual situation in which the Defendants’ underlying conduct is intertwined with an MDL class action settlement in another court,” and stated the referral “ensures uniformity of adjudication with a single ruling that will apply not only to the Defendants in this action but also to other potential lenders to class members who might assert the same defense[.] [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 7:58 am by Alan S. Kaplinsky and Mark J. Levin
  Indeed, all of the CFPB’s statistics on class actions in its arbitration study were derived from class action settlements, since none of the class actions studied by the CFPB actually went to trial. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 4:31 am by Edith Roberts
Piper, a class action challenging Minnesota’s sex-offender civil commitment regime[‘s]” “profound and persistent failure to ensure that individuals who pose no danger to society actually get released. [read post]
The class action lawsuit (which could potentially include hundreds of class members) alleges Trunk Club’s non-compete agreement is designed to keep workers from leaving the company, suppressing wages, and unfairly restraining competition in the retail labor market. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 8:13 am by Gene Killian
(I think defense counsel, worried about sanctions, told Witness No. 2 to behave. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 8:13 am by Gene Killian
(I think defense counsel, worried about sanctions, told Witness No. 2 to behave. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 5:01 am by SHG
Lopez wasn’t exactly class valedictorian and the guy who saved kittens from trees. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 10:30 am by Russell Spivak
But such a claim requires the defendant’s action be a proximate cause of the plaintiff’s alleged injury. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 6:59 am by Naomi Shatz
These include things like: extensions on schoolwork, excused absences from class, mental health and therapy services, and changes to housing and class schedules. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 6:00 am by Greg Mersol
The bottom line: An employer may have to take a class action case to trial to prove it, but a reasonable, well-written policy to enter time for off-the-clock work may prove to be a defense even in class or collective action litigation. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 8:40 pm by LundgrenJohnson
In addition to our criminal defense practice, we practice in the field of plaintiffs’ civil rights, which means that we take on cases where individuals have been injured or wronged by the actions of government officials, most commonly the police and the cities that employ them. [read post]