As 2010 winds down, it’s time to review the key developments in class action law. It was an especially busy year for the federal courts, and in particular the U.S. Supreme Court, on issues impacting class action practice. Here, in chronological order, are 10 key developments from the year that was: January 5 – In In [...]
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2010 Class Action Year in Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Federal Court Decisions, Supreme Court Decisions, Uncategorized, tagged 23(b)(2), all writs act, baycol, CAFA, CAFA removal, civil rights class action, class action review, Class Action Trends, class arbitration, class arbitration waiver, discrimination class action, diversity jurisdiction, dukes, FAA, foreign cubed, morrison, nerve center, preemption, rigorous analysis, shady grove, stolt-nielsen, top ten lists, wal-mart, year in review on December 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Happy Holidays from ClassActionBlawg.com!
Posted in General Site Information on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We here at ClassActionBlawg.com would like to wish all of our faithful readers a happy and healthy Holiday Season. Best wishes to you all for a joyful and prosperous 2011 (except maybe for you plaintiffs’ lawyers… Ok, you too, just not the prosperous part when you’re suing our clients).
Are Class Actions About to Make a Run for the Border?
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged class action reform, International Class Action Law, latin america class action, mexican class action, mexico class action on December 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
According to this December 9, 2010 Bloomberg article from Adriana Lopez Caraveo and Jens Erik Gould, the Mexican Senate has passed a bill that would introduce a form of class action litigation to Mexico. According to the article: The bill, which now moves to the lower house, would allow Mexicans to bring class action suits against companies [...]
Cert Granted in Walmart v. Dukes
Posted in Class Action News, Employment Class Actions, rule 23, Supreme Court Decisions, Uncategorized, tagged 23(b)(2), dukes, dukes v. wal-mart, employment class action, employment discrimination, scotus, u.s. supreme court on December 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Can plaintiffs seek back-damages using a class action vehicle that’s built for righting wrongs in equity through remedies like injunction? In the biggest work place class action ever, the United States Supreme Court has granted cert on the question of whether plaintiffs can use the Rule 23(b)(2) injunctive class procedure as a vehicle to seek money damages. [...]
The Seventh Circuit is Serious, All Writs Act Allows District Court to Enforce Collateral Estoppel Effect of its Class Certification Denial – Or – Don’t $%#& with Posner
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Settlements, Class Action Trends, tagged all writs act, blackmail settlement, class action abuse, class action reform, Class Action Settlements, collateral estoppel, posner, sears, sears class action, sears dryer, stainless, thorogood on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a case rife with lessons, a lawyer learned another valuable one today: If you’re going to dish out the vitriol in your briefing with certain judges, be ready to be put in your place. The case of Thorogood v. Sears Roebuck & Co. is already famous for the suggestion made by plaintiffs’ counsel in oral [...]
More on Colorado Class Action Trends from the Wash Park Prophet
Posted in Class Action Trends, Colorado Class Action News, Other class action blogs, tagged class action judges, class action litigation, Class Action Trends, colorado class action, colorado class action filings on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In October, Colorado attorney and Wash Park Prophet blogger Andrew Oh-Willeke asked whether there were any statistics on class action filing in the state and federal courts in Colorado. I responded by providing the raw data on class action filings that I could find through the Court News Service (see October 15, 2010, CAB Post entitled Colorado [...]
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