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10 Jun 2011, 5:00 am
This post by Luke Green discusses the legal issues of the case and what the result means for securities litigation going forward. 3) SEC Actions: Credibility and Defending SEC Investigations – In a recent speech, Enforcement Chief Robert Khuzami discussed the defense tactics that will not score you any points with the Enforcement staff. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 4:41 am
The appalling reign of California’s prison guards union [Tim Kowal, League of Ordinary Gentlemen via Tim Cavanaugh; Steven Malanga, City Journal; earlier] Defense side, including dozens of sued bloggers, begins to respond in “Rakofsky v. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 3:40 pm
Twitter and AmEx Lawsuits Highlight Gap Between Text Message Law and Industry Standards - The blogging lawyers and attorneys at Hunton Williams on the firm's Privacy & Security Law Blog Blogging, branding and the free-gap - Portland attorney David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm's Insurance Coverage Law Blog Supreme Court Rejects "Loss Causation" Requirement to Certify Securities Classes - Washington, DC lawyer Ronald Wick of… [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 2:22 pm
Also on May 27, the law firm representing the plaintiffs in the suit against Google and Slide filed a similar class action complaint against Twilio Cloud Communications and GroupMe. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 1:34 pm
Posted by Greg MersolJury trials of employment class actions are rare. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 4:08 pm
Class action wage-and-hour lawsuit against Findlaw for how it handles its staff bloggers. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 7:05 am
Because the Supreme Court has not accepted cases in the class certification arena for so long, the guidance it provides to lower courts in Dukes will be important, even beyond the direct impact it will have on employers’ defenses to workplace class action lawsuits. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 12:49 pm
” But I don’t necessarily agree with him that “[t]he decision reaffirms the entire court’s approval of securities class actions as a method of compensating investors for stock-market losses. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 8:53 am
In a brief June 6, 2011 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a unanimous court, the Court held that securities class action lawsuit plaintiffs do not need to prove loss causation in order to obtain class certification. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 3:07 am
The Bottom Line: Echoing the concerns raised by many defense attorneys, some courts still recognize that simultaneous opt-in and opt-out classes are incompatible. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 2:43 pm
If the the foreclosure crisis and battle against the banksters was an actual conventional war, you know, like the kind of thing we usually refer to as a “police action,” or “peacekeeping mission,” (white phosphorus, after all is just “Freedom Powder,” right?) [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 8:56 am
As a resource to California class action defense attorneys, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 4:30 am
The plaintiffs contended that they did not add a class representative to an already existing class action nor did they name a defendant they failed to previously serve, therefore, they did not commence a new action in filing SAC. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 3:22 pm
The question presented in the cert petition was whether was whether tolling the statute of limitations for individual claimants based on the pendency of a mass personal injury class action violates fundamental federal due process protections where the class action provides no notice to a defendant of the identity of unnamed class members, thus absolutely precluding the timely preservation of evidence and testimony critical to presenting an… [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 2:10 pm
The End of Wage-and-Hour Class Actions[By: Venable LLP |In: Labor & Employment Law]17. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 10:01 pm
Homes are the largest single asset of the American middle class, so as housing prices drop many Americans feel poorer. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:15 pm
Defense ArgumentCaptain Tiffany Dewell presented the defense argument. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 3:25 pm
There is no allegation that the anti-Semitic incidents were brought to Clark’s attention relative to the June 23, 2007 incident....The anti-Semitic slurs overheard by the complainant are neither actionable nor compensable. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 3:17 pm
Read more: http://citizensvoice.com/news/many-worry-about-water-1.1150470#ixzz1O4Gfz6lX BHP Billiton, an Australian company that recently purchased Chesapeake's leases in the Arkansas Fayetteville Shale play, is now faced with multiple class action suits alleging groundwater contamination and earthquakes allegedly caused by subsurface disposal of produced water. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 11:08 am
She brought a putative class action asserting a variety of claims, including a state law privacy claim, breach of contract, breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing, and claims under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. [read post]
