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11 Feb 2012, 8:14 am
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Cay Johnston has posted an opinion piece on Reuters providing some advice on “How to avoid a securities class action. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 10:36 pm
Based on the Court’s precedents, Prop 8 is a candidate for something more than ordinary rational-basis review both because it classifies in the personal area of family life and because it targets a class of people long subjected to unreasoning prejudice and opprobrium. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 4:57 pm
The class action form was also superior in terms of judicial economy and the inability of class members to pursue individual claims for small amounts. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 1:22 pm
” A “key player” is someone likely to have discoverable information relevant to the claims or defenses of any party. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 11:42 am
This February 6 Post from Greg Mersol discussing a recent federal court decision holding that the pleading standards articulated in Iqbal and Twombly do not apply to affirmative defenses in class actions. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 8:26 am
A class-action lawsuit, not listed by Jobs but discussed by the FBI, was filed in 1984 by shareholders and was slated to begin April 22, 1991. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 5:00 am
”Remember CAFA, the Class Action Fairness Act, the vehicle through which all these class actions are moved to federal court in the first place? [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 4:48 am
Readers of this blog know that I'm a big fan of Andrew Trask and his blog Class Action Countermeasures. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 3:36 am
(Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for Josh Fox, the fracking activist who was arrested last week for filming a Senate hearing without proper credentials, but he has no First Amendment defense.) [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 3:09 am
So, how does the class-action defense lawyer deal with cause lawyers? [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 3:55 pm
Concepcion - Hartford, CT lawyer Wystan Ackerman of Robinson & Cole on the firm's Insurance Class Actions Insider WWJD--United States v. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 12:36 pm
Supreme Court’s decision last term rejecting a class action gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart was seen as a major blow to corporate accountability in discrimination cases. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 12:29 pm
Brenner claimed that some of the damages he sought for already advanced defense costs did not depend on the final outcome of the securities class action. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 11:51 am
The Duran decision is unquestionably welcome news for employers defending class actions in California. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 9:24 am
MLSonline was fined $5,000, issued a letter of reprimand, and required to attend a class on ethics and social media. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 5:55 am
Now Dallas wants to get in on the action. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 2:40 pm
As to liability, the court stated "the use of statistical sampling, at least when paired with persuasive direct evidence, is an acceptable method of proof in a class action. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 12:35 pm
A class action claims Florida-based BPI Sports’ bodybuilding and dietary supplements “contain a dangerous amphetamine-like ingredient that poses a serious health risk and has potentially life-threatening side effects. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 4:30 am
With any given class session, we move through each of these three levels – for example, in discussing litigation behavior, we explore the different concepts of the lawyer and what types of action each might prescribe. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 10:00 pm
Wal-Mart for the proposition that a class action may not be based on Trial by Formula where a sample of the class is evaluated and liability and damages of the sample are extrapolated to the larger class. [read post]
