As reported this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal’s Deal Book blog, among other news sources, the firm of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, recently named as lead counsel in a securities class action against French bank Société Générale, has sent a group of lawyers across the pond [...]
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PR Campaign in Société Générale Class Action Reflective of Trend Toward Transnational Classes
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged French law, International Class Action Law, lerach, preclusion, res judicata, securities class action, securities fraud, transnational class action on July 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Watch Out Madison County, Victoria May Be Warming Up to Give You a Run for Your Money
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged australian class action, class action reform, International Class Action Law on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For those of you interested in class action reform issues abroad, Jocelyn Kellam and Stuart Clark of the Australian firm Clayton Utz have a new article out today entitled Australia: Be Alarmed Be Very Alarmed: Class Action Reforms Mooted, available at www.Mondaq.com (free registration may be required). The article is critical of several pro-plaintiff reforms being considered by [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged blawg review, blog review, blogosphere review, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions The UCL Practitioner comments on a California Court of Appeal decision discussing, in dicta, the viability of defendant classes in California… http://www.uclpractitioner.com/2008/07/court-of-appeal.html … and as The Complex Litigator notes with [...]
Institute for Litigation Reform: “America’s securities class action system is broken . . .”
Posted in Class Action Legislation, class action reform, Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, tagged Class Action Legislation, class action reform, class action statistics, securities class actions, SLAATA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Two news sources reported today on a forum sponsored by the Manhattan Institute to discuss a research paper releaseed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute of Legal Reform (ILR). See the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch section and an American Lawyer article by Brian Baxter posted on Law.com. The report and press release is available for [...]
Stanford Law School Offers Clearinghouse of Global Class Action Information
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Lawyers' Resources, tagged class action reform, collective action, foreign class action, global class action, group action, International Class Action Law, stanford university on July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I recently came across Stanford Law School’s Global Class Actions Exchange, a fantastic resource for anyone interested in trends in class, group, mass and other collective actions outside the U.S. The site offers a collection of papers presented by legal scholars from various countries on group action issues at a symposium held at Oxford University last December. It also provides a [...]
No Class Certification for Meal and Rest Break Wage Loss Claims
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, Practice Tips, tagged Baker Hostetler, Class Action News, class certification, employment law, overtime pay, predominance, wage and hour on July 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday, the California Court of Appeal issued an important class certification opinion in a wage and hour case, Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008 WL 2806613). This decision was highlighted in an entry yesterday on The Complex Litigator (see yesterday’s CABWR). The Baker Hostetler Employment and Labor Practice Team has issued an Executive Alert summarizing the [...]
Are Claims for Failure to Disclose “Risks” to a Company’s Patents the Next Big Thing in Securities Fraud Class Actions?
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, tagged IP litigation, patent litigation, securities class action, securities fraud on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Law.com has an interesting article today by Zusha Elinson of California legal journal The Recorder entitled “Patents: The New Class Action Frontier?” The article discusses a recent settlement in a securities fraud case against Magma Design Automation. The fraud case arose out of a declaration signed by its chief scientist in connection with an earlier patent dispute that he had developed the patents [...]
Facing the Threat of Government Action Following a Class Action Settlement
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Practice Tips, tagged attorney general action, CAFA, claims made settlement, class action settlement, FTC, government enforcement action, parens patriae on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is well-established that a properly tailored class action settlement release can preclude future actions by absent class members, even those who don’t respond to or otherwise participate in the settlement. (As an example, see this recent Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals opinion). So, in agreeing to a class action settlement, the defendant assumes that it is buying [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged blawg review, blog review, Class Action News, class action review, Class Action Trends on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions Here is a great new entry from North Carolina Business Litigation Report summarizing a recent NC supreme court decision that addresses several interesting Rule 23 issues, including pre-certification dismissal without court [...]
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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, Other class action blogs, tagged blawg review, blog review, class action commentary, Class Action News, class action review, Class Action Trends on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions The Complex Litigator has breaking news on a significant decision issued today by the California Court of Appeal reversing, on predominance grounds, a class certification order in a wage and hour [...]
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