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class certification
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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation
Judge Robinson Denies Plaintiffs’ Class Certification and Dismisses Case in Class 8 Truck Transmission Antitrust Litigation
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Sue L. Robinson in In Re Class 8 Transmission Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, Civil Action No. 11-00009-SLR (D.Del., October 21, 2015), the Court…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Supreme Court Takes On Class Actions, Again
By David Cannon
Over recent years the United States Supreme Court has waded deep into the waters of class certification, significantly altering the playing field for class action claims. As the Supreme Court…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Supreme Court Takes On Class Actions, Again
By David Cannon
Over recent years the United States Supreme Court has waded deep into the waters of class certification, significantly altering the playing field for class action claims. As the Supreme Court…
All About Advertising Law
Yahoo! Says Yahoo! In Defeating Class Certification in TCPA Texting Case
By Christopher L. Boone, Samuel D. Boro, Venable LLP
In a big win for Yahoo!, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California denied certification of a putative class in a suit alleging that Yahoo! violated the…
Business and Commercial
The Ninth Circuit Declares That Individualized Damages Issues Alone Never, Ever Preclude Certification of a Rule 23(b)(3) Class
By Heather Plocky, John Landry
In Pulaski & Middleman, LLC v. Google, Inc., No. 12-16752, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 16723 (9th Cir. Sept. 21, 2015), a Ninth Circuit panel held that individualized damages (or restitution)…
North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Can An NC Superior Court Judge Modify Another Judge’s Class Certification Order?
Is the certification of a class by an NC state court set in stone or can it be modified during the course of the litigation? The federal rule vs. the…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Banks Win Class Certification in Target Data Breach Case
A federal court recently granted class certification to a group of financial institutions (the “Banks”) in the data breach case against Target Corporation (“Target”) arising from the December 2013 hacking…
The Contingency
Fifth Circuit Misapplies Comcast, Affirms Class Anyway
[caption id="attachment_6708" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Macondo spill also spawned securities fraud claims[/caption] Modest decision In Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 133 S. Ct. 1426 (2013), a 5-4 majority -- over an…
Employment & Labor
Doing the “Two Step”: Court Grants Stage One Conditional Certification Of EPA Collective Action
By Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Howard M. Wexler In a case we previously blogged about here where the Court refused to grant Plaintiffs’ request for equitable tolling on their…
Mass Tort Defense
No-Injury Class Rejected by State Supreme Court
By Sean Wajert
Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in Felix v. Ganley Chevrolet, Inc., No. 2015-Ohio-3450 (Aug. 27, 2015), that courts cannot certify class actio