On July 29, Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued a decertification order in a long-running class action dispute concerning Cricket Wireless’s 4G advertising, ruling that plaintiff’s counsel made “too critical a mistake” in fashioning their class-wide
Off-Topic News: Camp Lejeune Lawsuits for Cancers due to Contaminated Water During 1953-1987 Now Allowed
People Need to File a Federal Court Lawsuit in the Eastern District of North Carolina Before August 8, 2024 Filing Deadline
(Posted by Tom Lamb at Drug Injury Watch)
Veterans who served at Camp Lejeune and their
New Complaint – SEC v. Alexandra Robert, et al.
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Alexandra Robert et al. was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 26, 2022, claiming violations of several provisions of the Securities Act and Securities Exchange Act.
Eleventh Circuit Denies En Banc Request, Confirms Holding that Class Action Incentive Payments are Improper
On Wednesday, August 3, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit confirmed the groundbreaking decision that incentive payments given to a named plaintiff in a class action are improper by denying a petition for rehearing en banc that had been pending for almost
Ponzi Perspectives: 2022 Midyear Roundup
McGuireWoods’ Ponzi Litigation team launched its Ponzi Perspectives blog in early 2021. Since that time, our focus is to track key cases and decisions that have the potential to influence controlling law on Ponzi-related issues. The blog also offers analysis
Eleventh Circuit Stands Firm – No Incentive Awards for Class Representatives
Nearly two years after it issued its initial decision in Johnson v. NPAS Sols., LLC, in which it held incentive awards for class representatives to be per se unlawful, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Illinois Federal Court Grants Class Certification To Cook County Department Of Corrections Applicants Based On Allegedly Discriminatory Entrance Exams
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer Riley, and Sarah Bauman
Seyfarth Synopsis: On August 8, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification for a class of applicants who
Class Certification Denied in Data Breach Class Action Based on Class-Action Waiver in Terms of Service
The Northern District of California denied class certification in a data breach suit against Zoosk, an online dating service, concluding that the lead plaintiff had waived any right to represent a class by agreeing to a class-action waiver. See Order
No Incentive Awards for Class Representatives — Eleventh Circuit Rejects Reconsideration <em>En Banc</em> of Its One-of-a-Kind Bar
Last week, the Eleventh Circuit declined, 7–4, to reconsider en banc a divided panel’s September 2020 decision barring incentive awards to class representatives for their work in class actions. As such, the Eleventh Circuit continues to stand alone among all federal
Eleventh Circuit Holds that All Class Members Must Have Standing Under Circuit Law to Recover Individual Damages
In Drazen v. Pinto, the Eleventh Circuit vacated a class settlement and held that in order to receive individual damages (whether through a settlement or otherwise), all class members must have Article III standing under Circuit precedent. 2022 WL 2963470,