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class certification
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Employment Class Action Blog
The Supreme Court Should Accept Certiorari in Dukes v. Wal-Mart
By Greg Mersol
The Dukes decision crossed several lines by certifying the class at the expense of the employer's defenses. The Supreme Court should accept certiorari and reverse.
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Nagareda on Common Answers for Class Certification
By joetort
Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) has posted his latest piece, Common Answers for Class Certification, on SSRN. The essay is part of a roundtable on Dukes v. Wal-Mart that will be published…
CAFA Law Blog
Continued Jurisdiction Under CAFA Does Not Depend On Certification.
United Steel, Paper & Forestry, Rubber, Mfg., Energy, Allied Indus. & Service Workers Intern. Union, AFL-CIO, CLC v. Shell Oil Co., 2010 WL 1571190 (9th Cir. (Cal.) Apr 21, 2010).…
InsureReinsure
Live Blog: Class Action Procedure: The Latest Developments from ALI-ABA Conference on Insurance and Financial Services Litigation
This panel offered the insights of a federal district court judge, defense counsel and plaintiffs’ counsel regarding Class Action Procedure, focusing on trends regarding the class certification process.
InsureReinsure
Live Blog — ALI-ABA Conference: Class Action Developments
Several InsureReinsure.com bloggers are attending the ALI-ABA Conference on Insurance and Financial Services Litigation in Chicago. Earlier today, one of the panels addressed recent developments in the area of class…
California Employment Law Update
Class Action Should Have Been Certified As To Claims For Overtime, But Not Meal And Rest Periods
By Tony Oncidi
Faulkinbury v. Boyd & Assocs., Inc., 185 Cal. App. 4th 1363 (2010) Plaintiffs sought to represent and certify a class of 4,000 current and former employees of Boyd & Associates,…
CAFA Law Blog
Love May Not Be Eternal, But CAFA Is; It Does Not Disappear On Denial Of Class Certification.
Delsing v. Starbucks Coffee Corp., Slip Copy, 2010 WL 1507642 (D. Minn. Apr 14, 2010)(No. 08-CV-1154PJS/JSM). Who would have thought that the tip jar at Starbucks would amount to a…
Drug & Device Law
Class Action Denial Federal Cheat Sheet
By Bexis
Almost from the day this blog was founded, we’ve been arguing that class actions have no place in prescription medical product liability litigation. We’ve put up several posts containing lists of cases to that…
Drug & Device Law
Diggin’ Digitek
By will
First the Digitek MDL gave us a new weapon – the “Digitek Order” – to ensure plaintiffs’ counsel comply with their Rule 11 obligations to actually investigate their clients’ claims…
Government and Public Policy
Second Circuit Rejects $2 Billion Class Action Award Against The Republic of Argentina
By Daniel Brown
On May 27, 2010, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed in part and remanded in part a district court's decision certifying class actions against the Republic of…