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3 Dec 2012, 7:59 am
But we also hope they don’t end up like Vietnam Vet John Shepherd Jr. who, reports the New York Times today, is also suing the military in a class action, “arguing that he and other Vietnam veterans had post-traumatic stress disorder when they were issued other-than-honorable discharges” and is asking that their discharges be upgraded. [read post]
3 Dec 2012, 12:39 am
The root cause is that there are fewer traditional securities class action lawsuits these days and the ones that are filed are tougher to prosecute as a result of a string of U.S. [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 6:55 am
Plaintiffs argued for certification of a main class of purchasers and sellers of virtual land/items and a subclass of people whose assets had been taken, frozen, or otherwise rendered unusable by Linden’s affirmative action (not just by having to agree to the amended ToS). [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 2:14 pm
“This settlement will dispose once and for all of the regulatory and class action proceedings. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 1:51 pm
Neither comparative fault nor assumption of the risk is a defense to a Labor Law § 240 (1) cause of action. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 1:51 pm
Neither comparative fault nor assumption of the risk is a defense to a Labor Law § 240 (1) cause of action. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 12:27 pm
Thus, the company argued that individual scrutiny would be required for every member of the class, thus making its continuation as a class action inappropriate. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 11:31 am
” (IAU) (Wikipedia link), which was shuttered in April, shortly after rumors of an FBI investigation into the site and a possible class action lawsuit began to swirl. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 4:00 pm
So anytime there is the slightest allegation of abuse, however unfounded, these officials are quick to take action. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 2:00 am
His practice focuses on antitrust, securities litigation, class actions and other large, complex commercial litigation. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 2:03 pm
LEXIS 1207], revisiting its prior “class action waiver” opinion in Franco v. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 5:00 am
I recently published an article on Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) interlocutory appeals (pdf) in the Defense Research Institute’s In-House Defense Quarterly magazine. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 5:00 am
I recently published an article on Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) interlocutory appeals (pdf) in the Defense Research Institute’s In-House Defense Quarterly magazine. [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 9:38 pm
For more details, see the B & P 17200/Class Actions/Commercial update page. [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 7:36 pm
And, as required by Stolt-Nielsen, when a class action waiver is unenforceable under Gentry, the plaintiff's claims must be adjudicated in court, where the plaintiff may file a putative class action. [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 9:02 am
” Regulatory Efforts On the regulatory front, on March 30, 2012 the EEOC issued a final rule amending its Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) regulations to clarify the reasonable factors other than age (RFOA) defense in disparate impact cases. [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 5:01 am
If this sounds like a defense of economic orthodoxy, however, then you have not been reading this blog for very long. [read post]
25 Nov 2012, 2:22 am
Plus, as of last year, the state already began holding parents accountable in civil actions when their furnishing alcohol to a minor results in serious injury or death. [read post]
23 Nov 2012, 5:45 am
The First Circuit has recently demonstrated how devastating this principle of law can be, ordering Starbucks to pay class action members $14.1 million in damages over tips that were improperly taken from them. [read post]
21 Nov 2012, 7:50 am
Dukes increasingly looks more like a source of heightened, though manageable, class certification criteria than the “death knell” for class actions that was predicted when it was issued. [read post]
