Topic
Class Settlements
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Ontario Condo Law Blog
Airbnb class action settlement
By Bob Gardiner
Please see CCI Toronto's Legislative Newsflash re Airbnb Class Action Settlement. If your condo has suffered misuse of your common elements because of Airbnb operations conducted at your property contrary…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Champlain Towers Collapse Class Action Settlement Is Granted Preliminary Approval
By Chip Merlin
The legal entanglements and issues arising from the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse at Sunrise, Florida reached a milestone with preliminary approval by the judge overseeing a billion dollar plus…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Opinion is Public Service Announcement
The Delaware Court of Chancery opinion styled: In re PLX Technology Inc. Stockholders Litigation, Cons. C.A. No. 9880-VCL (Del. Ch. April 18, 2022), described its opinion as a public service. …
Class Action Countermeasures
Ninth Circuit Case Reflects Split Judicial Landscape Regarding Intervenors’ Appellate Rights in Class Settlements
By Michael A. Brody, Andrew Gann, Trent Taylor
A recent Ninth Circuit decision—In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litig., 20-15697, 2021 WL 4306895 (9th Cir. Sept. 22, 2021)—that prevented a group of plaintiffs from challenging the approval of…
Class Action Countermeasures
Fourth Circuit Outlines Burden of Proof for Objector to Class Action Settlement
By Andrew Gann, Sylvia Macon Kastens
In 1988 Trust for Allen Children Dated 8/8/88 v. Banner Life Insurance Co., 2022 WL 774731 (4th Cir. Mar. 15, 2022), the Fourth Circuit identified the correct burden of proof…
Inside Class Actions
Fourth Circuit Rules that Settling Parties, Not Objectors, Bear the Burden of Showing a Proposed Class Settlement Should Be Approved
The Fourth Circuit recently clarified two points of law on which it had not previously spoken: (1) who bears the burden when a class member objects to a proposed settlement…
California Employment Law Update
Heightened Standard Of Fairness Required For Approval Of Class Action Settlement
By Tony Oncidi
Peck v. Swift Transp. Co. of Ariz., 2022 WL 414692 (9th Cir. 2022) In evaluating a settlement of a class action involving Cal. Labor Code § 2802 (employer indemnity for…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
After Remand from Supreme Court, <i>TransUnion v. Ramirez</i> Parties Reach Class Settlement
By David N. Anthony, Alexandria Pritchett, Noah DiPasquale
Last June, the Supreme Court issued a noteworthy decision in the TransUnion v. Ramirez case, holding that the vast majority of an 8,000-plus member Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) class…
Class Action Countermeasures
Fourth Circuit Upholds Class Settlement Despite Absent Class Member’s Objections to Notice, Fees, and Scope of Release
On a question of first impression in the Fourth Circuit, McAdams v. Robinson, 2022 WL 401806 (4th Cir. Feb. 10, 2022) concluded that absent class members[1] objecting to a magistrate…
Inside Class Actions
9th Circuit Holds that Failure to Apply Correct Legal Standard is Fatal to Class Settlement Approval Even if Not Argued Before District Court
A recent Ninth Circuit decision emphasizes that it will vacate class settlement approvals whenever district courts fail to apply the proper legal standards to assess class settlements. In Saucillo v.…