In another I must be living under a rock moment, for the first time this evening I came across Octagon Publishing’s Class Action Attorney Fee Digest Blawg. The Blawg, which supplements Octagon’s subscription service, Class Action Attorney Fee Digest, focuses exclusively on orders, decisions, and trends in attorneys’ fee awards in class actions. The publication’s key contributor is Harvard Law Professor [...]
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Fees, Fees, and More Fees
Posted in Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, class action blog, class action fees, fee award, fee petition on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s Next in Healthcare Reform? How About More Class Actions?
Posted in Class Action Trends, tagged bulletproof blog, chiropractor class action, class action trend, healthcare class action on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Levick Strategic Communications’ Bulletproof Blog has an interesting interview with Ohio attorney D. Brian Hufford, who offers a plaintiffs’ class action attorney’s perspective on the latest trend in class actions against healthcare insurers. Whether you’re plaintiffs’ attorney looking for the next wave of litigation, a defense attorney looking to keep up with what the other side is thinking, an insurer [...]
The Cycle of Victimization
Posted in class action reform, Commentary, tagged bank of america settlement, merrill lynch, sec, sec settlement, securities fraud on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an article today entitled “Unscrewing Shareholders,” Daniel Fisher of Forbes reviews a decision by U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Jed Rakoff rejecting a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America. The case involves allegations that Bank of America committed securities fraud by paying bonuses to [...]
Class Actions and the Universal Health Care Debate
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, healthcare debate, healthcare reform, malpractice, national healthcare on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A pair of recent letters to the editor of the Yuma, Arizona online newspaper the Yuma Sun debate the impact of class action lawsuits on the success of national healthcare reform in Canada. The first letter, from David P. Bossler, argues that the success of universal health care in Canada can be attributed in part [...]
Save the Date(s): 2009 National Institute on Class Actions Coming to a Coast Near You
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class action CLE, Class Action Decisions, class action jurisprudence, Class Action Trends, class actions national institute, national institute on class actions on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The ABA’s 13th Annual National Institute on Class Actions, the gold standard in class action CLE conferences, is coming up this fall. This year’s format is a little different. They will be holding two sessions, one on each coast. The dates and locations are: Friday, October 30, 2009 San Francisco, CA 8:00 AM – 5:00 [...]
Practice Tip: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade
Posted in Practice Tips, tagged class certification, decertification, dispositive motion, practice tip on September 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Conventional wisdom says that for a defendant, class certification is to be avoided at all costs, and many defendants may assume that the best strategy for dealing with a certified class, short of settlement, is to find a way to get the class decertified. But it’s important to remember that a class action judgment has a preclusive [...]
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From the Annals of Class Action Jurisprudence – 1973 – Second Circuit Decision Could “Bring an End to Mass Class-Action Lawsuits”
Posted in Commentary, legal history, tagged class action history, class certification, eisen, eisen rule, merits determination, rigorous analysis on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While doing some research today on another issue, I came across this news clipping from the May 3, 1973 issue of the St. Petersberg Times discussing a federal court of appeals decision in a class action decided a few days before. The article begins: NEW YORK – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of [...]
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