Thomas R. Bender, who blogs on Nuisance Law, recently posted an article entitled Pollution vs. Lawful Product: Nuisance vs. Non-Nuisance, which clarifies some nuances and distingushing characteristics between the Rhode Island Supreme Court’s decision in Rhode Island v. Lead Industries Association and the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in St. Lawrence Cement Inc. v. Barrette. A November 22 ClassActionBlawg entry [...]
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Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, class action reform, tagged class certification, Class Action Trends, Class Action News, International Class Action Law, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action Decisions, class action commentary class action scholarship, UDCPA, aggregate litigation on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog posts from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action-Related Post of the Week Kudos to the folks at Drug and Device Law Blog on their excellent review, with the help of O’Melveny’s John Beisner, of the most recent draft of ALI’s Principles of Aggregate Litigation: http://druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com/2008/12/umm-what-he-said.html [...]
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