What started off as an almost tongue-in-cheek line of questioning from Justice Antonin Scalia to attorney Joseph M. Sellers in Tuesday’s Wal-Mart v. Dukes oral argument has become the foundation for a watershed decision on gender equality: JUSTICE SCALIA: [what] your answer assumes is if there is a disparity between the advancement of women and the advancement of [...]
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BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Issues General Injunction Prohibiting All Gender Disparity in Hiring and Promotion
Posted in Class Action Humor, tagged april fool's day on April 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Moose Collision Litigation, the Wave of the Future in Canadian Class Actions?
Posted in Class Action Humor, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged british columbia, canada class action, canadian class action, class action in canada, international class action, manitoba, moose class action, moose collision, negligence class action, newfoundland class action on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you’re a Canadian class action lawyer looking for next big thing in class actions, moose collision litigation was looking pretty promising. As mentioned in this October 19 CAB entry, a class action was filed against the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador for alleged negligence in introducing moose into the area early last century, causing an excessive [...]
Danger! Moose Crossing
Posted in Class Action Humor, International Class Action Law, tagged canadian class action, canadian class action law, class action against government, class actions in canada, moose class action, newfoundland class action on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
According to this article from The Canadian Press and this one from the Ottawa Citizen, a lawyer in St. Johns, Newfoundland is considering suing the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador on behalf of a would-be class of people injured in collisions with moose. The theory would apparently be that the government was negligent in introducing moose into the [...]
South Park Gets it Wrong
Posted in Class Action Humor, Colorado Civil Procedure, tagged bono, class certification, colorado class action law, entertainment class action, mickey mouse, oprah, south park, south park class action, streisand, tom cruise on April 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The 200th episode of “South Park” features a class action lawsuit by 200 celebrities led by Tom Cruise against the small fictitious Colorado town. As a Colorado resident and class action lawyer, I’m dismayed at the lack of attention to detail by the South Park writers when it comes to Colorado class action law. (Ok, I haven’t actually [...]
New Class Action Attorney Registration Requirements Adopted
Posted in Class Action Humor, tagged april fools, class action license, supreme court rules on April 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Supreme Court blog www.scotusnewz.com reports that the Court has approved Rule 23.4.1, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which will require all attorneys wishing to represent clients in class actions in federal courts to be specially licensed as “Class Action Counsel.” Licensing requirements are to include successful completion of a 3-hour Class Action Bar examination, an [...]
Fighting Fire with Fire
Posted in Class Action Humor, Class Action News, tagged class action defense strategy, class action filing, class action PR, class action press release, frivolous class action, frivolous lawsuit, groupon on March 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Are you a company faced with the prospect of having to defend a class action lawsuit that you believe is frivolous? You have many options, but unfortunately, none of them are all that palatable. You can settle for big bucks right away, you start paying some superstar class action defense lawyer hundreds of dollars an [...]
If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Join ‘em
Posted in Class Action Humor, Class Action News, class action reform, tagged class action reform, parking ticket class action, tort reform on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trial lawyers everywhere are saying a collective “I told you so” to a tort reformer who has filed a would-be class action against the City of Sacramento for its practices in towing cars parked in no-parking zones. For more details on the story, see this entry in the Los Angeles Times’ L.A. Now Blog. The plaintiff, Fred Heistand, is [...]
Class Actions Make America Great
Posted in Class Action Humor, tagged america class action, entrepreneurial litigation on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the entertaining Free Refills and Why I Love America, Ann Arbor, Michigan blogger Wally has listed class actions as the number #11 best thing about living in the U.S., just behind the Super Big Gulp. Class action-philes might feel a bit slighted about not making the top 10, but at least we got a mention! Wally’s colorful description of [...]
Does Class Action Spell Doom for Pico-Blogging?
Posted in Articles, Class Action Humor, Class Action News, tagged april fools, pico blog class action on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The newest Internet craze, “pico-blogging” may be over as soon as it started. Lawyers representing two users of the popular pico-blogging site, www.a.com, filed a class action Wednesday accusing the site’s owners of fraud, copyright infringement, violations of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act, loss of consortium, and a variety of other legal transgressions. According to the [...]
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“What Would King Solomon Do?” or “Justice Is No Joke”
Posted in Class Action Humor, Class Action News, class action reform, Commentary, tagged class action settlement, coupon settlement, gift card settlement, judge brett c. klein on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge’s attempt to exact poetic justice out of a proposed gift card settlement has resulted in a censure by the California Commission on Judicial Performance, according to this article from the legal humor blog, Lowering the Bar. The censure stems from a ruling on a motion for final approval of a settlement [...]
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