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The US Supreme Court’s Ruling in American Pipe Does Not Extend to Allow Tolling of Statutes of Limitation in Successive Class Actions

By BakerHostetler on June 13, 2018
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided China AgriTech, Inc. v. Resh, No. 17-432, 584 U.S. __ (2018) and held that the American Pipe doctrine, which tolls the statute of limitations to permit members of a putative class to bring individual claims in the event class certification is denied, does not toll the statute of limitation for putative class actions. The case provides greater certainty to class action exposure for companies by preventing plaintiffs from consecutively filing, or “stacking,” class actions in a bid to extend the statute of limitations. Our colleagues Justin T. Winquist and Sammantha Tillotson published a Client Alert with more information.

 

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