The Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog is constantly putting out quality content, but they have two new recent posts that I would especially recommend to my readers. They include: This February 6 post from John Lewis discussing the impacts, both on employment cases and otherwise, of the Second Circuit’s recent Amex III decision. This February [...]
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Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog – Much More than Quality Employment Class Actions News
Posted in Class Action Trends, Federal Civil Procedure, Federal Court Decisions, Lawyers' Resources, Other class action blogs, tagged american express merchants, amex III, arbitration, class action, compucredit, concepcion, employment class action, FAA, federal arbitration act, federal common law, federal statutory law, greenwood, iqbal, lewis, mersol, pleading, rule 8, scalia, twombly, unconscionability on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
… More on Amex III
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, tagged american express merchants, amex III, arbitration waiver, class arbitration, concepcion, FAA, stolt-nielsen on February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
As promised in my post late last week, the Baker Hostetler client alert on last week’s Second Circuit decision in In Re American Express Merchants’ Litigation, No. 06-1871 (2d Cir., Feb. 1, 2012) (Amex III) was released today. Here is a link to the alert, authored by New York partner Deborah Renner and Columbus associate Jennifer Vessells, [...]
The Third Circuit Clarifies the Facts About FACTA While the Second Circuit Has a Different Concepcion of Class Arbitration Waivers
Posted in Antitrust Class Actions, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Consumer Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged arbitration, circuit court of appeals, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, consumer class action, credit card, expiration date, FAA, FACTA, hilfiger, scotus, second circuit, stolt-nielsen, Supreme Court, third circuit on February 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Two readers sent me tips yesterday on important decisions from the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals that will be of interest to class action practitioners: First, John G. Papianou of the Philadelphia firm Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP forwarded a copy of the Third Circuit’s decision in Long v. Tommy Hilfiger U.S.A., Inc., No. 11-1554 (3d Cir., [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 3 – Managing the Mass
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Practice Tips, tagged belgium, case management, civil law, class action, Electronic discovery, high court of justice, International Class Action Law, jarndyce, mass action, rosenthal, s.d. tex, southern district of texas, steel, telekom, tort, verougstraete on December 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This is the third 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 and Session 2. Session 3: Managing the Mass: Judicial Case Management As the title suggests, this presentation focused on strategies for judges [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session II – Who’s Paying?
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, australia, cameron, cartel claims, class action, class action funding, collective litigation, cost shifting, european class action, fee shifting, foris, hodges, ilf, IMF, international class action, litigation funder, litigation funding, loser pays, Meincke, netherlands, omni bridgeway, private litigation funder, schreiber, vaughn walker, wieling on December 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This is part II of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. For the introduction, see part I posted yesterday. Who’s Paying? New Developments in Funding Professor Christopher Hodges, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford/Erasmus University (and a co-sponsor and co-founder of the conference) [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session I – The Challenge of Mass Communications
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, Uncategorized, tagged aggregated action, class action, collective action, dexia, dutch class action, european class action, globalization, international class action, mass action, mass communication, PR, public relations, taco bell on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation was even better than advertised. It was an engaging and enlightened gathering of the world’s top experts in the areas of class, collective, and mass litigation. And what better environment to have a conference on developments in international law than at the beautiful and historic Raad [...]


Association, Causation, and the Fuzzy World of the Baysian p-Value in Class Actions
Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged 10-b, 10b, anosmia, basic, baysian, class action statistics, hopson, kaye, matrixx, p-value, reasonable investor, scientific evidence, securities, securities class action, securities fraud, statistics, zicam on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
David H. Kaye, Distinguished Professor of Law and Weiss Family Faculty Scholar at the Penn State School of Law, recently published a fascinating commentary in the BNA Insights section of the BNA Product Safety & Liability and Class Action Reporters, entitled Trapped in the Matrixx: The U.S. Supreme Court And the Need for Statistical Significance. In the article, [...]
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