Yesterday, NERA Economic Consulting issued a working paper entitled Trends in Canadian Securities Class Actions: 2009 Update. The paper covers offers a variety of figures and statistics on cases being pursued, time to resolution, the values of settlements reached in 2009, the exposure represented by cases still pending, and the number of cases with parallel U.S. proceedings. [...]
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NERA Economic Consulting Issues Report on Securities Class Actions in Canada
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Reports and Surveys, tagged canadian class action, securities class action, canada class action, ontario class action, NERA, secondary market liability on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Class Action No Longer a Pain in the Neck for Alberta Chiropractors
Posted in Class Action Decisions, International Class Action Law, tagged alberta class action, canada class action, chiropractor class action, class certification, defendant class on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry to all my loyal readers (I use the plural form optimistically) for my absence from the Blawgosphere during the past week. During my hiatus, Ward Branch of the Vancouver, B.C. firm Branch MacMaster sent me a copy of this decision denying class certification in an Alberta case filed against a chiropractic professional association and a would-be defendant class of chiropractors. [...]
More on In re Baycol Products Litigation
Posted in Class Action Decisions, tagged anti-injunction act, baycol, class certification, collateral estoppel, federalism, preclusion, preclusive, product liability, res judicata on January 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week, I posted a short note about the Eighth Circuit’s decision in In re Baycol Products Litigation. Here is a more in-depth synopsis, thanks to fellow Baker & Hostetler partner Joe Ezzi: The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a district court order enjoining state court plaintiffs from pursuing a class action because the district court had [...]
Eighth Circuit Upholds Federal Injunction of Putative State Court Class Action
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Federal Court Decisions, tagged anti-injunction act, class certification, collateral estoppel, federal court, federalism, preclusion, relitigation, res judicata, state court on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A colleague tipped me off today to a recent Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding a Minnesota federal district court’s order enjoining class certification proceedings in a West Virginia state court, following the federal court’s earlier denial of class certification in an action filed against the same defendant. Here’s a link to the slip opinion: In [...]
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