Search for: "Class Action Defense" Results 1501 - 1520 of 12,819
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
20 Dec 2007, 8:14 pm
A class action against Merrill Lynch & Co. alleging that the company provided false research reports on Internet companies ended yesterday when a federal court gave final approval to a settlement of the class action. [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]
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]
17 Dec 2008, 7:30 pm
These conferences promise to be well worthwhile for class action defense attorneys. [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]
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]
15 Mar 2008, 5:33 pm
A huge class action action in Oregon says so, and the litigation will be fun to watch. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 2:27 am by Andrew Trask
Many observers of class actions (including me) have promoted the use of mediators in negotiating class action settlements. [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]
19 Sep 2013, 3:46 am by Andrew Trask
That means that class actions work best when the cost of complying with due process is relatively low. [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:35 am by Hunton & Williams LLP
Robins has been nearly universally lauded by defense counsel as a new bulwark against class actions alleging technical violations of federal statutes. [read post]