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6 Feb 2008, 4:28 am
In order to prepare its defense against the class action claims, defense attorneys requested production of all documents plaintiff obtained from “publicly available sources” prior to filing suit, id., at *3. [read post]
In this action, a District Court in New York held that affirmative defenses asserted on the merits could not be used to cut down the amount in controversy even where the complaint itself discloses the existence of a valid defense. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 10:24 am by Peter S. Lubin and Patrick Austermuehle
Lubin Austermuehle’s Chicago class action defense attorneys have successfully defended clients against putative class action lawsuits by picking off the named plaintiffs. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 4:07 am
Plaintiff moved the district court to certify the litigation as a class action; defense attorneys opposed class action treatment on the ground, inter alia, that plaintiff failed to establish the predominance and superiority requirements for a Rule 23(b)(3) class. [read post]
9 Apr 2008, 5:18 am
Defense attorneys argued a bright-line rule exists in class actions that preclude discovery of the identity of class members if the named plaintiffs were never members of the class, id., at *3. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 7:27 am
” _Id._ Defense attorneys moved to dismiss the class actions; the district court found that the _Newsome_ class action allegations were inadequate to state claims, but that the _O’Bannon_ class action adequately alleged violations of the Sherman Act. [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 5:13 am
The action had been filed in the superior court, but the defense removed the class action to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 8:00 am
Class actions are useful when a number of plaintiffs have similar injuries stemming from a similar (or, in mass disasters, identical) incident and the expected defenses are also similar. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 11:27 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
” The court stated that class counsel “must think that like most class actions suits this one would not be tried -- that if we ordered a class or classes certified DirectSat would settle. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 7:30 pm
These conferences promise to be well worthwhile for class action defense attorneys. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 12:20 pm
Defense attorneys moved to dismiss the class action complaint on the grounds that the class action’s allegations “failed to meet the heightened pleading standards required by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA)”; the district court agreed and dismissed the class action. [read post]
28 May 2008, 5:09 am
Defense attorneys moved to dismiss the class action on the grounds that the FCC had not yet decided whether § 258(a) applies to VoIP providers as well as a “telecommunications carriers. [read post]