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10 Aug 2010, 4:24 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Concepcion) arguing that large corporations should be allowed to slip class-action waivers into everyday consumer contracts, in spite of state laws and court decisions prohibiting the practice. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 11:58 am by Deepak Gupta
Concepcion, the Supreme Court will decide whether companies can use the fine print of contracts to ban class actions by consumers or employees for discriminatory, fraudulent, or deceptive practices. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 10:33 am
  Plaintiff opposed that cross motion, arguing that NYCTA was not entitled to summary judgment because the NYCTA is not in the business of renting or leasing motor vehicle, and thus not within the class to which the Graves Amendment applies and/or protects. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 8:47 am
View Blog California Employment Law Blog Labor and Employment attorneys Keith Chrestionson, Alex Hernaez and Jeff Polsky discuss a wide variety of legal challenges faced by California employers, including class actions, wage and hour, overtime, discrimination, harassment and privacy issues. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 7:13 am by Josh Wright
Tyler Cowen has posted the reading list for his 2010 Industrial Organization class in the George Mason economics department. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 12:58 am by Kelly
(Afro-IP) United Kingdom EWHC (Pat) dismisses Abbott’s application for specific disclosure of documents in action concerning medical stents: Abbott v. [read post]
7 Aug 2010, 10:43 am by Andrew Frisch
Newberg, Newberg on Class Actions § 12:15, at 313 (4th ed. 2002) (“Of course, in order independently and objectively to evaluate the adequacy of the entire settlement . . ., the court must possess sufficient evidence or information to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of the additional . . . claims. [read post]
7 Aug 2010, 8:29 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]
6 Aug 2010, 6:47 am by randal shaheen
A federal court in New York recently denied an effort to dismiss a consumer class action based on allegedly deceptive nutrient content and health claims made in relation to the highly popular VitaminWater beverage. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 1:07 pm by James R. Marsh
On February 26, 2009 the Center filed a class-action suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against Ciavarella, Conahan, their wives and their confederates in the scheme, by this time coming to be known as the “kids for cash” conspiracy. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 9:08 am by PJ Blount
The theme for the conference is “From Threat to Action. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 8:28 am by Paul Bland
Class-action bans are contract terms that purport to prevent consumers and employees from ever participating in class proceedings. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 5:18 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Such will almost certainly be the case once the class-action litigation over BPA finally heats up. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 4:54 am by Sean Wajert
Here at MassTort Defense we have warned companies about the dangers of consumer fraud class actions and highlighted some of the many ridiculous, far-fetched, beyond belief claims that plaintiffs make about being misled about some product. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 4:09 am by SHG
  Unlike police, defendant's don't take classes in how to testify convincingly at the defendants academy. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 2:56 am by Kevin LaCroix
The New Century Financial securities class action lawsuit – which was the first of the subprime-related securities class action lawsuits when it was filed in February 2007 – has been settled for $124,827,088, subject to court approval. [read post]