I promised myself that I would turn to more highbrow class action analysis after my Bigfoot manifesto over the weekend, but of course the most interesting legal news today was the case of the Knights Templar suing the Pope, so serious class action commentary will have to wait another day. Plus, I heard the story on NPR, so that makes it real [...]
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Is the Case of Knights Templar v. the Pope a Class Action?
Posted in Class Action News, International Class Action Law, tagged collective actions in spain, da vinci code, global class action, International Class Action Law, knights templar, spanish class action, the pope on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ClassActionBlawg.com Has a New Look
Posted in General Site Information on August 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I thought that it was about time to give the site layout a bit of an overhaul, so I decided to change to a new WordPress theme. The new Mistylook theme has several nice features that the previous one lacked, including better positioned RSS feed buttons, a Comment RSS feed link and Trackback URI link at [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in CAFA Requirements, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Commentary, Federal Court Decisions, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, Practice Tips, tagged blawg review, blog review, class action blawg, class action blog, Class Action News, Class Action Trends on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Due to my blog sabbatical last week, here are two weeks worth of blog postings that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions The folks at CAFA Law Blog decided to post a great new entry on a recent Class Action Fairness Act decision seemingly every few minutes during the past [...]
Need PR Help in Connection with Class Action Litigation? Check out the Latest High Stakes Newsletter from Levick Strategic Communications
Posted in Practice Tips, tagged class action best practices, class action PR, class action publicity, PR, PR firm on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ClassActionBlawg.com got an unsolicited but much appreciated plug from Levick Strategic Communications in its most recent High Stakes Newsletter, which discusses best practices relating to class actions. I don’t know Richard Levick personally, but I saw him speak at the annual LSI class actions conference in Seattle a few years back and was very impressed. If you have a high profile [...]
As Close as I Can Get to a Commentary on Cy Pres
Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, Practice Tips, tagged claims made settlement, class action fund, class action settlement, class award distribution, cy pres, fluid recovery on August 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m not sure if it is by coincidence or not, but the use of the cy pres doctrine in class actions has been the subject of criticism from several different sources over the past couple of weeks. Cy pres, loosely translated from its original French “cy-près,” means “as near as possible” or “as near as may be.” The doctrine arises out of [...]
ClassActionBlawg.com Will Be Back Next Week
Posted in General Site Information on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My apologies to all of my loyal readers for going dark this week (there are hundreds of you, I’m sure). I’ve been out of town and had planned on having more reliable Internet access. Check back next week for more class action news, commentary, and analysis…
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Posted in CAFA Requirements, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Commentary, Federal Court Decisions, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, Practice Tips, tagged blawg review, blog review, class action blog, Class Action News, Class Action Trends on August 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here are links to some blog posts from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions Class Action Defense Blog reviews a recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri denying class certification in consolidated cases filed by U.S. rice growers against [...]
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