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class certification
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California Employment Law Update
Court of Appeal Rejects “Trial by Formula,” Reverses Multimillion Dollar Verdict and Orders Class Decertified
By Hal Brody
Duran v. U.S. Bank Nat’l Ass’n, No. A125557, 2012 WL 366590 (Feb. 6, 2012) In a decision destined to have significant statewide ramifications, the California Court of Appeal for the…
Class Action Countermeasures
Rikos v Proctor & Gamble Co (SD Ohio 2012) – Challenge Early, Challenge Hard
By The Editors
This week's case is the first known follow-up to the Sixth Circuit's Pilgrim opinion, Rikos v. Proctor & Gamble Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25104, (S.D. Ohio 2012). In Rikos,…
Beneficially Yours
Brave New World After Dukes — Judge Posner Endorses Hybrid Class Actions
By: Mark Casciari and Ian Morrison On February 24, 2012, Judge Richard Posner of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit authored a significant post-Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes…
Class Actions Insider
Class Certification After Wal-Mart v. Dukes: New Seventh Circuit Opinion On Injunctive Relief Under Rule 23(b)(2) and Issues Classes Under Rule 23(c)(4)
Classes can still be certified post-Wal-Mart, even in large employment discrimination cases. That seemed to be the message delivered by Judge Posner in his opinion for the Seventh Circuit in…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Seventh Circuit Approves Re-Tooled Theory For Class Certification In Wake Of Dukes
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Jennifer Riley As we have noted in multiple posts (here and here) the plaintiffs' class action bar has been increasingly focused on re-booting their…
Class Actions Insider
Decertification Likely Has Binding Effect, But Can Defendants Give a Denial of Certification the Same Effect?
A recent opinion by the Western District of Pennsylvania reminded me of an interesting wrinkle of class action law: the decertification of a class that was previously certified typically has…
Class Action Countermeasures
Classic Cases – London v. Wal-Mart Stores, inc.
By The Editors
Todays' classic case asks the question: how close an attorney-client relationship is too close an attorney-client relationship? In London v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (11th Cir. 2003), the plaintiff, Roger London,…
Beneficially Yours
Second Circuit Vacates ERISA Class Action Certification Based on Wal-Mart v. Dukes
By: Mark Casciari and Ada Dolph On February 6, 2012, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Nationwide Life Ins. Co. v. Haddock, Case No. 10-4237-cv, vacated and…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Campos on Proof of Classwide Injury
By joetort
Yours truly has posted an article on SSRN entitled Proof of Classwide Injury. Here is the abstract:Federal courts have recently required proof of classwide injury to certify a class action…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
D.C. District Court Holds Plaintiff to a Demanding Standard and Denies Class Certification Based on Inability to Establish Common Damages
The plaintiff filed a class action suit in the District Court of the District of Columbia against the defendant, Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Whole Foods), alleging that Whole Foods had…