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CABWR Addendum — Spam Class Actions

Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged , on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In my haste in getting the CABWR out yesterday, I omitted a couple of interesting class-action-related posts from Spam Notes.  For those of you on the email distribution list, hopefully you’ll see the humor in getting spam about spam: http://spamnotes.com/2008/10/24/the-aol-email-lawsuit.aspx http://spamnotes.com/2008/10/25/forwardafriend-spam-lawsuit-against-reunioncom-dismissed-wleave-to-amend.aspx And now for something completely different…

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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review

Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged , , , , , , on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review’s “Lay Down the Gauntlet” Challenge of the Week I know this is going to make me sound like Ayn Rand, but why would we possibly want to encourage a public policy that imposes liability on employers for failing to force all of their hourly employees not to work during meal and rest breaks? I sense [...]

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Second Circuit Unwilling to Reject “Foreign Cubed” Class Actions Categorically

Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, Federal Court Decisions, International Class Action Law, tagged , , , , , , on October 28, 2008 | 10 Comments »

For those interested in the internationalization of class action law, be sure to read the Second Circuit’s decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd., 2008 WL 4660742 (2d Cir. Oct. 23, 2008).  (Thanks to  The 10b-5 Daily and Point of Law for tipping me off to the decision). I have previously commented on the trend in efforts [...]

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Robin Hood as a Lawyer’s Role Model

Posted in Class Action News, Commentary, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

AP writer Greg Risling reported today on the sentencing of former Milberg Weiss partners Steven Schulman and David Bershad for their roles in a scheme involving the payment of kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities class actions.  Both lawyers were sentenced to six month prison terms.  The scandal involved paying class representatives a portion of the oftentimes multi-million dollar legal fee awards obtained as [...]

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The Perfect Video Game for Anyone Fed Up with Class Action Lawyers

Posted in Class Action Humor, Off Topic, tagged , , on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I shouldn’t encourage this, but I just couldn’t resist.  OTS Software offers a free game called “Class Action Killers,” which it describes as follows: Class Action Killers is a 3D 3rd-person shooter game. Attorney Max Fees has dispatched his lethal lawyers to destroy the city. You must stop his lawyers and put an end to [...]

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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review

Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged , , , , , on October 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Art? In one of the more original class action-related blog postings ever featured in the CABWR, Artist Izhar Cohen has created a graphic description of an Israeli court’s recent class action ruling in a case [...]

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Politics and Class Action Reform

Posted in Class Action Fairness Act, Commentary, Other class action blogs, tagged , , , , , , , on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This evening, I came across an excellent blog article by David J. Sales, a trial lawyer with the Florida personal injury firm, Searcy Denney.  His article discusses Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s vote in favor of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the significance of that vote in demonstrating an independent streak, allowing him to counter John McCain’s claim to being the [...]

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Will UK Damages Ruling Put a Damper on Collective Action Reform?

Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Commentary, International Class Action Law, tagged , , , , , , on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Efforts to expand access to collective redress in the UK have been the subject of several recent entries here at ClassActionBlawg (see these entries dated October 9, September 1, and August 28).  According to an article published today in the Times Online, a British appellate court has dealt a setback to reformers by rejecting theories of damages considered [...]

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Who’s Reading?

Posted in General Site Information on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

WordPress has added a nifty new polling feature, so I thought I’d try it out.  Let’s find out who’s reading ClassActionBlawg.  Please click all options that apply.

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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review

Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged , , , , , , , on October 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 Blog Post Title of the Week CAFA Law Blog‘s entries often make me chuckle, but here is one that had me rolling for some reason (probably lack of sleep due to late night blogging): [...]

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