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Class Action & Mass Torts
Baker v. Microsoft Corporation Revisited: Video Gaming Company Seeks to Stop Class Action Plaintiffs From Shortcutting the Appeals Process
July 21, 2015 Update: On July 20, 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Microsoft’s petition for rehearing en banc and amended its March 18, 2015, opinion to add…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Class Ascertainability
Yale Law Journal is publishing a note by Geoffrey Shaw on the latest hot topic in class litigation, class ascertainability. Here's the SSRN abstract:In recent years, federal courts have been…
Class Actions Insider
Rule 23 Subcommittee’s Proposed Amendments
The Rule 23 Subcommittee of the federal Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules recently issued a report with proposed amendments to Rule 23. These are at an early stage…
Class Actions Insider
Use of Expert Testimony at Class Certification Stage Addressed By Third Circuit
The Third Circuit recently joined the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits in holding that, where a Daubert challenge is made to the use of expert testimony in support of class…
Technology and AI
<em>Baker v. Microsoft Corporation</em>: Game Companies Beware, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision May Make It More Difficult to Defeat Class Actions
By Judy Suwatanapongched, Andrew Kreider
July 21, 2015 Update: On July 20, 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals amended its March 18, 2015, opinion to add a footnote supporting the conclusion that it had…
Antitrust Alert
Third Circuit Remands Class Certification Ruling in Blood Reagents Price-Fixing Case
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court’s order certifying a class of direct purchasers of blood reagents in a price-fixing suit against…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Carnival Workers Get Conditional Certification In Case Where Lawyers Sought To Depose Their Own Lead Plaintiff
A few weeks ago, I posted about the unique (i.e. strange) situation of the plaintiff’s lawyer in this case seeking to depose his own client. There has been a new…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Ninth Circuit Opinion Suggests Potential Tool To Oppose Certification Of Successive Class Or Collective Actions
By Christopher M. Cascino and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. In Baker v. Microsoft Corp., No. 12-35946, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 4317 (9th Cir. Mar. 18, 2015), the U.S. Court of Appeals…
SDNY Blog
Judge Rakoff Denies Class Cert Where Class Rep Faced Unique Defense Relating to “Netting” of Losses
In an opinion Friday, Judge Rakoff denied class certification in an class action accusing various defendants connected to a hedge fund of trading on insider information to the detriment of…
The Brand Protection Blog
Redline Xtreme plaintiffs denied class certification
The federal judge overseeing a putative class action alleging that the marketers of Redline Xtreme Energy Drink hid dangerous side effects, dealt the plaintiffs a serious blow last week when…