On May 1, we received the following comment in response to a post from last May entitled Will AT&T v. Concepcion Really Kill the Consumer Class Action? Melissa It has been almost a year. Could someone tell me, in their opinion, what effect Concepcion has had on consumer class actions over the last 11 months? [...]
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Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet?
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, tagged AAA, american express, amex, arbitrability, arbitration, at&t, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, cosumer class action, federal common law, TCPA on May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Disgraced Class Action Lawyer Enjoying the Good Life
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, tagged class action, class action reform, coia, enron, fee splitting, kick-back, lerach, milberg, scandal, tort reform on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent article by Ann Woolner of Bloomberg offers an interesting profile of class action pioneer William Lerach, who has been traveling the world and relaxing in his seaside mansion since his release from prison last year. Lerach was convicted in 2007 for his part in a kick-back scheme in which lawyers agreed to split fees with clients in order to convince [...]
More on Mexico’s New Class Action Law
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged class action frontier, Class Action Legislation, cross-border class action, International Class Action Law, latin america, latin america class action, mexican class action, mexican collective action, mexico, transnational class action on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A recent CAB post entitled Mexico Joins the Class Action Club provided an update from Mexican attorney Jorge de Hoyos Walther on the passage of recent legislation in Mexico introducing class actions. If that post piqued your interest, check out this new article authored by Catherine Dunn for Corporate Counsel magazine (available at Law.com) entitled Mexico’s [...]
NY Times vs. Forbes: Is Concepcion a Blow to Consumer Rights or to Trial Lawyers’ Pocketbooks?
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, Class Action Trends, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged arbitration, arbitration clause, AT&T Mobility, breyer, class arbitration, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, consumer class action, consumer rights, scalia on May 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Two op-eds published today highlight the philosophical debate over the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion. The first, published by the New York Times, argues that the decision is a “devastating blow to consumer rights” because it makes it practically impossible for many consumers to seek vindication of their [...]
Warding Off “Professional” Objectors to Class Action Settlements
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Settlements, Commentary, Practice Tips, tagged class action, class action reform, class action settlement, collusion, objection, predatory, professional objector, settlement notice on March 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Legal commentator and unabashed crusader for class action reform, Lawrence W. Schonbrun, has a new article on The Huffington Post discussing so-called “professional” objectors in class action lawsuits. Schonbrun criticizes what he believes is hypocrisy in plaintiffs’ class action lawyers attempting to vilify those who seek to object to class action settlements for profit because, in his view, many class [...]
Schonbrun: Are Statutory Penalty Class Actions WMDs?
Posted in class action reform, Commentary, tagged class action, class action criticism, class action reform, class action watch, conspicous, FACTA, fcra, schonbrun, statutory penalty, weapons of mass destruction on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Class Action Watch executive director Lawrence W. Schonbrun has an opinion piece in yesterday’s Huffington Post entitled The Class Action Mess in a Nutshell. In the article, he questions whether the same “weapons of mass destruction” label that Warren Buffet gave to financial derivatives should apply equally to class action lawsuits. As an example, he offers a [...]
Minnesota House Considering Significant Consumer Class Action Reform Measures
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, Commentary, tagged class action reform, consumer, consumer class action, consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices, democratic farmers labor party, minnesota, tort reform, unfair competition on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
According to this February 8, 2011 article from Lee Ann Schultz of the Twin Cities Daily Planet, the Minnesota legislature is considering a bill that, according to its sponsors, would curtail consumer class action litigation in the state. The bill, HF211, has three key provisions of interest, which would: limit private actions under three consumer protection statutes to [...]
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 [...]
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Debate over Wisconsin Class Action Rule Takes on Increased Significance After Recent Supreme Court Decisions, Arrrr
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged bayer, class certification, concepcion, dukes, federal class action, forum shopping, frcp 23, rule 23, shady grove, state class action, state court class action, wisconsin class action, wisconsin lawyer on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I noted in my post a few weeks ago for the SCOTUSBlog class action symposium, one issue to which I’m paying particularly close attention these days, particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Shady Grove, Concepcion, Bayer and Dukes, is whether the state court class certification standards begin to diverge from [...]
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