I came across a couple of funny blog posts this week reporting on class actions that are only slightly too outrageous to be real. Fundamentally Flawed fake reporter Brian Barrish reported on a class action filed against “a popular group known as the Christians plagiarized nearly all of their religious texts from earlier sources,” while The Nose on Your [...]
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The Lighter Side of Class Actions
Posted in Class Action Humor, Uncategorized, tagged Class Action News, fake news, parody, satire on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, law blogs on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog postings from the past week (and a day) that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions CAFA Removal CAFA Law Blog provides a case summary of an Illinois federal court decision declining removal jurisdiction under CAFA pursuant to CAFA’s permissive abstention provisions. http://www.cafalawblog.com/-case-summaries-illinois-court-finds-permissive-abstention-under-28-usc-1332d3-to-be-appropriate-and-declines-jurisdiction.html [...]
One Day Behind this Week
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m one day behind this week, so watch out for the Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review posting tomorrow. I’ve been helping out as a trainer with a trial skills course this week, which has sucked up what little free time I had. Asking a class action defense lawyer to give a presentation on jury trial skills is a bit [...]
Finland’s Class Action Law a Success Although Never Once Used
Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, International Class Action Law, tagged capitalism, class action reform, consumer class action, consumer protection, european class action, free market, international class action, tort reform on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have previously commented on various class action reforms being considered or implemented in Europe. These reforms and the debate surrounding them shed an interesting light on US class action law because proposed reforms are inevitably compared to the US class action procedure. On one hand, US class action procedure provides the model for the [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged blawg review, blog review, class action analysis, class action blog, class action commentary, Class Action News, Class Action Trends on July 1, 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 Summaries and commentary of class action case decisions highlighted this past week’s class action blog postings: The Complex Litigator provides an analysis of a recent California Court of Appeal decision upholding [...]
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Hoosier Lottery Class Action: Is it Typical to Spend $40,000 on Lottery Tickets?
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Commentary, tagged adequacy of representation, class certification, commonality, gambling, hoosier lottery, predominance, superiority, typicality on July 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Indianapolis Star reported yesterday on a class certified in a case filed in Marion County, Indiana against the Hoosier Lottery alleging that the lottery defrauded purchasers of its Cash Blast scratch game tickets by misrepresenting the odds of winning the top prizes after most of those prizes had already been awarded. I haven’t been able [...]
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