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Class Settlements
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Class Defense Blog
Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski Objects to Class Settlement
It's always worth a look when a federal judge steps down from Olympus the bench to act as an ordinary mortal litigant. Class action aficionados in particular should not miss Alison Frankel’s report for Reuters, discussing a…
Data Counsel
Class Action Settlement Based on Voucher Payout Wins Preliminary Approval by California District Court
By Judy Selby
Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. On November 5, 2013, a California federal district court preliminarily approved a revised coupon-based class…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Class Action Settlement Based on Voucher Payout Wins Preliminary Approval by California District Court
By Judy Selby
On November 5, 2013, a California federal district court preliminarily approved a revised coupon-based class action settlement agreement between plaintiffs and OfficeMax (see Order Granting Preliminary Approval of Revised Class…
Class Action Countermeasures
The Problem with Asymmetric Analysis of Class Actions
By The Editors
In her new article Symmetry & Class Action Litigation, 60 UCLA L. Rev. 1494 (2013), Connecticut law professor Alexandra Lahav has spotted what appears to be an interesting inconsistency in the way…
Canadian Fraud Law
Court approves gold-plated releases despite extensive fraud allegations
Our team acted for one of the parties in Labourers’ Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada v. Sino-Forest Corporation, where Justice Morawetz of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved Ernst &…
Class Actions Insider
Innovative Class Action Settlement Overturned By Sixth Circuit
Some loyal readers of my blog may recall my June 8, 2011 blog post about the district court’s approval of the class action settlement in In re Dry Max Pampers…
Class Action & Mass Torts
How A Ruling Shapes A $160 Million Class Action Settlement
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and David Ross Our Annual Workplace Class Action Report analyzes the top ten settlements each year in various categories of complex workplace litigation, including employment…
Compensation & Benefits Blog
Rule 23 Requirements are “Heightened” for Proposed Class Settlements
In Rodriguez v. Nat’l City Bank, --- F.3d ---, 2013 WL 4046385 (3d Cir. Aug. 12, 2013), the Third Circuit refused to certify a proposed class for settlement purposes to…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Not So Fast: Third Circuit Refuses To Overturn Denial Of Rule 23 Settlement Class Based On Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
By Gerald L. Maatman Jr. and Howard M. Wexler In a well-reasoned and very important decision for all class action practitioners, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently…
The D&O Diary
Bankers’ Professional Liability Insurance Does Not Cover Overdraft Fee Class Action Settlement
A recurring question under the management liability insurance protection that banks typically acquire is the extent of the protection afforded under their policies’ professional liability provisions. One particular question that…