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17 Apr 2012, 8:21 am
Last year, 7,006 wage-and-hour suits, many of them class actions, were filed in federal court, nearly quadruple the 2000 total, according to defense law firm Seyfarth Shaw. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 9:30 pm
Donnelly offers a robust defense of popular constitutionalism -- and especially for popular check on congressional action. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 1:37 pm
(Sometimes state and federal attorneys general can sue over drugs that were falsely marketed, like how Johnson & Johnson was just walloped for $1.2 billion in Arkansas for improper marketing of Risperdal, but consumers can’t, because those same legislators and judges have delivered mortal wounds to most consumer class actions.) [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 8:27 am
Although this surely will settle as most class action lawsuits do, the case is sure to cost the Copper Top a pretty penny. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 6:52 am
In affirming the district court’s decision, Continental will receive a judgment of $233,674.49, which was the amount of the defense cost Continental paid on his behalf in the class action brought against him. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 6:52 am
In affirming the district court’s decision, Continental will receive a judgment of $233,674.49, which was the amount of the defense cost Continental paid on his behalf in the class action brought against him. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 6:25 am
Wells Fargo Bank, a proposed class action over the price of appraisal fees paid by home borrowers. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 6:01 am
Jane Ginsburg: emerging concepts of IP rights and limitations; each paper paired with commentary from a different jurisdiction, usually US/EU. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 12:48 am
Serious securities class action settlement negotiations usually do not take place in a vacuum. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 10:01 pm
You may well ask: "Why direct action? [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 2:15 pm
A second common scenario where defendant can obtain early dismissal of a class action is where there is a possible complete legal defense to the plaintiff’s class claims, but the defense is based on an unsettled question of law. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 1:34 pm
Plaintiffs moved the trial court to certify the litigation as a class action, id., at 5. [read post]
14 Apr 2012, 11:17 am
The Court of Appeal deemed this an abuse of discretion, concluding that “the trial court ‘was required to determine the elements of plaintiffs’ claims’ because the court ‘could not determine whether individual or common issues predominate in this case, and thus whether a class action was proper, without first determining this threshold issue. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 4:40 pm
Surrex Solutions, S200557—Review Granted and Held—April 11, 2012 This is a wage-and-hour class action by corporate recruiters against their employer for failure to pay overtime and failure to provide meal periods, among other claims. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 8:50 am
As explained below, the Court's application of class action rules means that class actions based on common policies (such as rest periods) may be authorized more freely than courts have been allowing up to now.1.5 The summary judgment motion will be a very important part of class action defense and should be considered early in the process to avoid class certification of claims that are based on a common policy, but… [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 8:16 pm
The embattled, high-volume debt collection market with remains fertile grounds for class action litigation [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 8:16 pm
The embattled, high-volume debt collection market with remains fertile grounds for class action litigation [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 5:01 pm
I won a major class-action victory for a valued client, wrote an article for a national trade publication regarding negligent product recalls, prepared for an upcoming CLE presentation on the defense of high-stakes, consumer class actions, managed to have dinner with my husband on our seventh anniversary, and spent several “quality” hours with my two-year old Kate. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 1:35 pm
Such a situation is certainly the exception rather than the rule in most Labor Code class action litigation. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 3:38 am
So, why should a defense lawyer bother reading this article? [read post]
