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class certification
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Drug & Device Law
Can’t Tell Who Is in the Class? Class Cert Denied
What do you get when no one has been injured and the most you can say is that maybe someone received medicine made from an active pharmaceutical ingredient that may…
Class Action & Mass Torts
5 Key Trends In Workplace Class Action Litigation For 2018: Trend #2 Record-High Certifications Video
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Seyfarth Synopsis: Our latest blog gave readers a detailed breakdown of the second trend of our 15th Annual Workplace Class Action Report (WCAR), which was…
Class Action & Mass Torts
5 Key Trends In Workplace Class Action Litigation For 2018: Trend #2 Class Certification Trends In 2018
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Seyfarth Synopsis: As our 2019 Workplace Class Action Report describes, 2018 was quite an interesting year for employers in terms of class certification rulings. Plaintiffs achieved…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Class Claims Deserve More Rigorous Treatment, Third Circuit Holds
John Ayers-Mann and Kerry Friedrichs Seyfarth Synopsis: In a recent decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rebuked a Pennsylvania district court’s skeletal analysis of plaintiffs’ class action claims. Particularly,…
Employment Class and Collective Action Update
Criticizing Lower Court, Third Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Suit Alleging Pay Violations
By Joanna M. Rodriguez, Marla N. Presley
A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit has struck down U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab’s decision granting class certification in a suit brought by mortgage loan officers claiming they…
Employment Class Action Blog
Central District of California Denies Certification in Mortgage Loan Officer Case
By Greg Mersol
FLSA Conditional Certification Denied Too The position of mortgage loan officer has been a fertile source of wage and hour claims, but a recent case from the Central District of…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Ninth Circuit Panel Affirms Inadmissibility Alone is Not a Proper Basis to Reject Evidence in Support of Class Certification
By Robert Guite
Following the denial of a petition for rehearing en banc, over a spirited dissent, a Ninth Circuit panel issued its amended order on November 27, 2018 in Sali v. Corona…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Ninth Circuit Panel Affirms Inadmissibility Alone is Not a Proper Basis to Reject Evidence in Support of Class Certification
By Robert Guite
Following the denial of a petition for rehearing en banc, over a spirited dissent, a Ninth Circuit panel issued its amended order on November 27, 2018 in Sali v. Corona…
Declassified
They Don’t Call It the Wild West for Nothing: The Ninth Circuit Reverses Denial of Class Certification Because Trial Court Kept Out Inadmissible Evidence
By J. Thomas Richie, John E. Goodman
The Ninth Circuit’s decision not to grant en banc rehearing in Sali v. Corona Regional Medical Center should all but guarantee that the issue of expert testimony at the class certification…
Veterans Law Prof
Judge Certifies Class in Navy Discharge Upgrade case
By sberenson
Earlier this week, United States District Court Judge Charles Haight, Jr. granted class certification to the plaintiffs in Manker v. Spencer, 3:18-cv-372 (CSH). Roughly stated, the nation-wide class is composed of…