Comments for ClassActionBlawg.com http://classactionblawg.com class action news, commentary, and analysis Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Where Not to Get Sued by Class Action CLE Recap – Insights on the 2012-13 Supreme Court Term from the Bench and Both Sides of the Bar | ClassActionBlawg.com http://classactionblawg.com/2008/12/17/where-not-to-get-sued/#comment-7228 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:38 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=801#comment-7228 […] actions with some practical tips for defense lawyers.  Standard Fire, he argued, is proof that judicial hellholes still exist.  He pointed to Amgen as an example of the dangers of accepting conventional wisdom, […]

]]> Comment on Thoughts on Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes by Class Action CLE Recap – Insights on the 2012-13 Supreme Court Term from the Bench and Both Sides of the Bar | ClassActionBlawg.com http://classactionblawg.com/2011/06/20/thoughts-on-wal-mart-stores-inc-v-dukes/#comment-7227 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:36 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=1679#comment-7227 […] for plaintiffs arising from the “death of Eisen” (the rejection in decisions like Wal-Mart and Comcast of the idea that merits questions were off-limits at the class certification phase) is […]

]]> Comment on Supreme Court Tells Lower Courts to Roll Up their Sleeves in Assessing Expert Testimony on Issues of Classwide Proof by Class Action CLE Recap – Insights on the 2012-13 Supreme Court Term from the Bench and Both Sides of the Bar | ClassActionBlawg.com http://classactionblawg.com/2013/03/27/supreme-court-tells-lower-courts-to-roll-up-their-sleeves-in-assessing-expert-testimony-on-issues-of-classwide-proof/#comment-7226 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:33 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=2488#comment-7226 […] agency law: a plaintiff cannot bind a class of people that he or she doesn’t yet represent.  Comcast exemplifies the importance of examining the plaintiffs’ theory of liability and the […]

]]> Comment on Plaintiff’s Counsel Can’t Bind Class By Stipulating to $4,999,999 in Damages, Says Supreme Court in Standard Fire by Class Action CLE Recap – Insights on the 2012-13 Supreme Court Term from the Bench and Both Sides of the Bar | ClassActionBlawg.com http://classactionblawg.com/2013/03/19/plaintiffs-counsel-cant-bind-class-by-stipulating-to-4999999-in-damages-says-supreme-court-in-standard-fire/#comment-7225 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:30 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=2486#comment-7225 […] it is not surprising that it is a question for trial, not a prerequisite for class certification.  Standard Fire can be viewed as a straightforward application of agency law: a plaintiff cannot bind a class of […]

]]> Comment on Materiality Can Wait, Says the Supreme Court in Amgen by Class Action CLE Recap – Insights on the 2012-13 Supreme Court Term from the Bench and Both Sides of the Bar | ClassActionBlawg.com http://classactionblawg.com/2013/02/27/materiality-can-wait-says-the-supreme-court-in-amgen/#comment-7224 Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:28 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=2469#comment-7224 […] from the standpoint of what a trial court judge would have expected given existing law.  Amgen was predictable because the question of materiality in a securities fraud case is unquestionably a […]

]]> Comment on Genesis Healthcare Decided. Now “feel free to relegate the majority’s decision to the farthest reaches of your mind”? by Class action roundup - Overlawyered http://classactionblawg.com/2013/04/16/genesis-healthcare-decided-now-feel-free-to-relegate-the-majoritys-decision-to-the-farthest-reaches-of-your-mind/#comment-7215 Mon, 13 May 2013 04:30:08 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=2498#comment-7215 […] Corp. v. Symczyk: can defendant moot class action by settling lead plaintiff’s complaint? [Karlsgodt, Trask, Fed […]

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]]> Comment on Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet? by By Reading this Post, You Agree to Submit any Dispute to Binding Arbitration on an Individual Basis | ClassActionBlawg.com http://classactionblawg.com/2012/05/10/concepcion-a-year-later-are-consumer-class-actions-dead-yet/#comment-6471 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:32:25 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=2199#comment-6471 [...] federal law claims.  The case will test the limits of the Supreme Court’s holding in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011) (holding that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws prohibiting [...]

]]> Comment on Arizona Considers Significant Class Action Reform Bill by automatedcustomer http://classactionblawg.com/2013/02/04/arizona-considers-significant-class-action-reform-bill/#comment-6457 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:43:56 +0000 http://classactionblawg.com/?p=2438#comment-6457 We many times believe that trial lawyers have used the class action legal mechanism to join together large and diverse groups of claimants as a means of extracting huge settlements or court awards from defendants. Through the practice of “forum shopping,” plaintiff lawyers could file their suits in local plaintiff-friendly courtrooms that had little regard for defendants’ right to due process.
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