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3 Aug 2011, 1:08 pm
Posted by Greg MersolIt has been a slightly over a month now since the United States Supreme Court announced its blockbuster decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 2:29 pm
Posted by Greg MersolThe battle between California courts and the U.S. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 10:06 am
Posted by Greg MersolWhen the much anticipated decision is Wal-Mart Stores Inc v Dukes.pdf was announced (see our post analyzing of the decision), many commentators, us included, believed it would significantly change the landscape of employment class actions. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 10:53 am
Posted by Greg MersolWe've written several times this year about the wide split in authority regarding whether a plaintiff in a wage and hour case may bring both a collective action under the FLSA and a Rule 23 class action with respect to claimed parallel violations of state law. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 10:14 am
Posted by Greg MersolA recent case from the Eastern District of New York reflects that race discrimination class actions can be brought, and also reflects the type of claim which will likely still survive in the wake of last week's Supreme Court decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 4:15 pm
Wal-Mart - Cleveland lawyer Greg Mersol of Baker Hostetler on the firm's Employment Class Action Blog Diabetes Irony - Pennsylvania pharmacist Joel Shpigel on his blog, Diabetes Pharmacist U.S. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 3:41 pm
Posted by Greg MersolToday, June 20, 2011, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Wal-Mart Stores Inc v Dukes.pdf Case No. 10-277 (U.S. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 5:08 pm
Posted by Greg MersolThe United States Supreme Court held on June 16, 2011 that a federal court could not enjoin a state court from considering certification of a class unless it had previously denied certification under essentially the same standard AND the cases have the same parties. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 2:00 am
Posted by Greg MersolIt has been a good few weeks for employers in the satellite dish industry. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 10:19 am
Posted by Greg MersolFashion icon Mark Twain once said, “Clothes make the man. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 3:13 am
Posted by Greg MersolA recent case demonstrates that it is often easier in theory than in practice to contend that a large group of employees are "similarly situated" for purposes of certifying a collective action. [read post]
24 May 2011, 11:27 am
The Concepcion opinion (reviewed in Greg Mersol's April 27, 2011 post on this blog and in the May 5, 2011 Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action newsletter) involved a consumer class action but will impact the enforcement of many types of arbitration agreements. [read post]
23 May 2011, 1:49 pm
Posted by Greg MersolAs we have commented before in this blog, courts considering certification of collective actions under the FLSA often use the two-step procedure generally attributed to the court in Lusardi v. [read post]
4 May 2011, 11:00 am
Posted by Greg MersolOn April 14, 2011, the Seventh Circuit issued an important decision regarding removal under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”). [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 6:19 pm
Supreme Court Rules That Federal Law Preempts State Laws That Obstruct The Enforcement Of Class Action Waivers In Arbitration Agreements - San Diego lawyer Shannon Peterson of Sheppard Mullin on the firm's Class Action Defense Strategy Blog The Supremes Hold the Federal Arbitration Act Preempts State Decision Requiring Class Arbitration - New York attorney Russell Jackson on his blog Consumer Class Actions & Mass Torts Supreme Court Holds That Class Action Waivers In… [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 2:31 pm
Posted by Greg MersolThe Supreme Court has now held that the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. section 2, preempts state laws that would condition arbitration agreements on the availability of class action arbitration procedures. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 2:00 pm
Posted by Greg MersolDon't let the facts get in the way of a good story . . . unless you are a governmental agency entrusted to follow the law and you are bringing an expensive class-wide case. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 5:24 pm
Mahler of Farrell Fritz in his New York Business Divorce Blog South Carolina Court Certifies Race Discrimination Action - Cleveland lawyer Greg Mersol of Baker Hostetler on the firm's Employment Class Action Blog Reconciling Agreement Terms: Using "Unemancipated Child" May Have Unintended Consequences - NY attorney Neil Cahn on his blog, Divorce: New York Is it Madness to Say "March Madness" On the Air? [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 10:37 am
V.P. of Chubb & Son, securities class action filings are down significantly in 2010. http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/11/04/guest-contributor-securities-class-action-filings-are-down-but-will-the-trend-continue/ Hot Pockets are Fast and Tasty Greg Mersol of Baker Hostetler’s new Employment Class Action Blog reports on the latest in a series of California decisions denying class certification in a wage and hour case seeking to hold an employer liable for… [read post]
