I’m embarrassingly late in posting a link to a terrific article from Steptoe & Johnson Partner Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov entitled Has Dukes Killed Medical Monitoring? The article, published in the November 2011 Issue of DRI’s For the Defense Magazine, explores the potential impact of the Supreme Court’s decision Dukes in defending against class certification of product liability [...]
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Dukes, Medical Monitoring, and the Distinction Between Equitable and Injunctive Relief
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Practice Tips, rule 23, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged 23(b)(2), class certification, commonality, daubert, dukes, equitable, expert, injunctive relief, medical monitoring, rule 23, scotus, Supreme Court, wal-mart on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy – An Indispensible Practice Guide
Posted in Mass Tort, Practice Tips, tagged drug and device, mass tort, mdl, medical products liability, multidistrict litigation, practice guide, practice tip, product liability, products liability on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In December, I posted this preview of the then forthcoming book, Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy, by Mark Herrmann and David B. Alden (Oxford University Press 2011). I received my copy of the book just before the holidays, and it is as good as advertised. The book has many strengths. It is comprehensive, generally accessible, eloquently written, [...]
Netherlands Court Reaffirms Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Approving Collective Settlement
Posted in Class Action News, International Class Action Law, tagged amsterdam court of appeal, collective action, collective settlement, converium, extraterritorial, International Class Action Law, netherlands, scheurleer, transnational, tzankova on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you who attended last month’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions (or followed my series of posts summarizing the conference) will know that the Netherlands has been on the forefront of global mass dispute resolution as a result of its statute allowing for collective settlements. Today, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal issued a ruling dismissing [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 6 – Paths to (Mass) Justice
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged Class Action Trends, collective action, collective redress, european class action, european collective action, international class action, mass harm, mass injury, mass tort, prediction on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This is the sixth and final installment of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, and Session 5. Paths to (Mass) Justice To wrap up the conference, Dr. Sam [...]
Presentation Materials for Tomorrow’s Webinar on Class Action Objectors
Posted in CLE Programs, Practice Tips, tagged class action, class action objector, class action settlement, greenmail, professional objector, strafford on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
For those who can’t make the live presentation, or those who simply can’t wait until tomorrow, here are the Program Slides for tomorrow’s Strafford webinar, Class Action Settlement Objectors, Minimizing and Defending Challenges by Professional Objectors, Government Officials and Public Interest Groups. We hope you can make it!
Don’t Miss Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar on Class Action Objectors
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class action objector, class action settlement, class certification, final approval, government objector, greenmail, professional objector, public interest objector, rule 23 on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for next Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar entitled Class Action Settlement Objectors, Minimizing and Defending Challenges by Professional Objectors, Government Officials and Public Interest Groups. Here is a link to the registration page for the webinar, and see the synopsis below. New Jersey Appellate Law Blog‘s Bruce Greenberg and I will be the [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 5 – Who Has Jurisdiction in a Global Market?
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged cashman, chevron, globalization, gomez, groenewout, hensler, international class action, international mdl, lago agrio, mdl, multi-national, multi-national class action, scheurleer, securities, sour lake, texaco, toxic tort, transnational, transnational class action on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This is the fifth in a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, and Session 4. Who Has Jurisdiction in a Global Market? This presentation was chaired by Professor Deborah Hensler, Stanford [...]
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Demanding More from Outside Counsel
Posted in Commentary, Other class action blogs, rule 23, tagged class action, constitutional law, constitutionality, herrmann, legal theory, outside counsel, redish, rule 23, trends on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Herrmann, former contributor to Drug and Device Law Blog and Vice President and Chief Counsel for Litigation at Aon, Inc., recently authored and entertaining and enlightening post in the legal industry blog, Above The Law. In Inside Straight, Torpedoing Class Actions, Herrmann highlighted a 2009 book by Northwestern Law’s Martin Redish entitled Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class [...]
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