According to this article by Anindita Dey of the Business Standard yesterday, an Indian securities regulator has announced plans to fund a program to reimburse litigation expenses actions brought on behalf of investors for alleged illegal securities practices. The fund would be available to a group of registered investor associations who could apply for reimbursement for legal expenses [...]
Posts Tagged ‘associational standing’
Litigation Funding for Representative Shareholder Actions in India
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged associational representation, associational standing, class action india, indian class action law, International Class Action Law, litigation funding, private litigation funding, public litigation funding, representative litigation on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Partial Glossary of Representative Actions and Terms
Posted in Class Action Trends, Other Representative Actions, tagged aggregator, associational standing, bellwether, class action, collateral estoppel, collective action, derivative suits, dispositive motion, issue preclusion, mass action, non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel, parens patriae, qui tam, representative action, reverse bifurcation, virtual representation on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I commented recently on the fact that the well publicized “class-action” trial against the United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs was never actually certified as a class action. Instead, the case is being pursued by two nonprofit veterans’ advocacy groups who are pursuing the case on behalf of their members based on a concept called associational [...]
Veteran’s Administration “Class Action” Not a Class Action at All
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, tagged associational standing, injury-in-fact, organizational standing, standing, VA, veteran's administration on April 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There have been a variety of recent news reports about a trial that began today in a “class action” lawsuit against the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or VA. The case, now captioned Veterans for Common Sense v. Peake, was filed by two nonprofit groups on behalf of veterans of the Iraq and Afganistan wars and [...]

