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Archive for June, 2008

Your Team Didn’t Win the Super Bowl? A Class Action Might Make You Feel Better.

Posted in Class Action News, tagged , , , , , , on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I couldn’t resist commenting on this tidbit of class action-related news today.  A New Jersey federal judge has granted a motion for extention of time to amend the complaint and make service of process in a would-be class action filed by a disgruntled New York Jets fan against the New England Patriots and their coach, Bill [...]

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CAFA Official Notice Requirements in Action

Posted in CAFA Requirements, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, tagged , , , , , , , on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re interested in what “appropriate” governmental officals could do after receiving notice of a federal class action settlement, here’s a case that might interest you.  (See my earlier entries on the official notice requirements of 28 U.S.C. 1715 dated March 28 and April 9).  In Figueroa v. Sharper Image Corp., Case No. 05-21251-CIV-ALTONAGA/Bandstra (S.D. Fla., [...]

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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review

Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged , , , on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here are some links to blog entries that might be of interest to class action practitioners from this past week… Class Action Scandals Portfolio.com comments on unidentified “conspiring former partners” implicated in the Milberg Weiss kickback scandal. http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/06/24/Former-Milberg-Partners-Identified Natural Gas Guru comments on the wire fraud trial of two lawyers arising out of a settlement in [...]

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More Commentary on the Wisconsin “Diploma Privilege” Class Action

Posted in Class Action News, Commentary, Other class action blogs, tagged , , , , , , , on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sarah Waldeck, contributor to a great general interest law blog called Concurring Opinions, has posted a commentary discussing the recent decision to certify a class of out-of-state law graduates challenging Wisconsin’s “diploma privilege,” which allows in-state graduates to be admitted to practice without taking the bar examination.  Ms. Waldeck’s article raises questions about the social utility of a state requiring recent graduates to [...]

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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review

Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, Practice Tips, tagged , , , , , on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Class action settlement issues provided fuel for commentary in the class action blogosphere this week, and there was still plenty of analysis and debate about the recent class action lawyer scandals.  Here are links to those and other blog postings that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Settlements Wage Law analyzes a series of recent decisions [...]

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Freaked out about the bar exam? Class action to the rescue.

Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Commentary, tagged , , , , , on June 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »

The Associated Press reported today that United States District Judge Barbara Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin has certified a class action filed on behalf of out-of-state bar applicants.  (See the article as published in the Chicago Tribune here.) What piqued my interest about this case was not that a class was certified but [...]

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Claims-Made Settlements In Consumer Class Actions

Posted in Articles, Class Action Settlements, Class Action Trends, Practice Tips, tagged , , , , , on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This article on claims-made settlements appeared originally in the guest column section of the March 10, 2008 issue of ProductLiabilityLaw360.  Under the submission guidelines, I retain copyrights to the article, but I was required to wait at least three months before reprinting the article elsewhere. Claims-Made Settlements In Consumer Class Actions Monday, Mar 10, 2008 — In recent years, commentators, [...]

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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review

Posted in CLE Programs, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Legislation, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, Reports and Surveys, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here are some blog postings from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners.  The topic headings may or may not be a permanent addition to this weekly column.  They made sense this week given logical groupings in the topics being discussed around the blogosphere.  Let me know what you think. Class Action Decisions The Complex [...]

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Class Action Lawyers Losing their “Good Guy” Image?

Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged , , , on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Washington Post columnist has David Ignatius published a great op-ed last week regarding the downfalls of high-profile plaintiffs’ class action lawyers Melvyn Weiss and Dickie Scruggs.  The column appears in the June 5 edition of the Post under the title Reining in the Kings of Tort and in the June 6 edition of the Indianapolis [...]

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Check out this great directory of online legal research tools

Posted in Online Research, tagged , , , , on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Genie Tyburski, a law librarian for the firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll and web manager for the site www.virtualchase.com, has put together a nice list of online legal research tools available for litigators entitled “10 Essential Web Sites for Litigators.”  I like this list because it includes resources that are free, not necessarily [...]

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