CABWR is finally back after a three week holiday hiatus! Here are some blog posts from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions CAFA Law Blog discusses a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision addressing jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) before reversing class certification in [...]
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Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged brinkley, CAFA, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, global coordinating counsel, mass tort litigation, securities class action, TCPA, wage and hour class action on January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged CAFA, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog posts from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Top Stories that Are Hopefully Not Indicative of Class Action Trends Overlawyered reports on a courtroom fistfight between two lawyers pursuing rival class action suits against the same defendant: http://overlawyered.com/2008/12/new-orleans-brawl-between-class-action-lawyers/ Class Action Decisions How Appealing summarizes and [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, Reports and Surveys, tagged CAFA, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, class certification decision, ERISA Class Action, International Class Action Law, securities class action, transnational class action on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CABWR Challenge of the Week Recap I’m very disappointed to have to report that last week’s “Lay Down the Gauntlet” Challenge of the Week did not generate a single vote or comment. This means that I must arbitrarily assign a label for class actions filed against institutional investors for failing to make a claim in another [...]
New Federalist Society Class Action Watch Available
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged class action commentary, Class Action Trends, federalist society, lead counsel, medical monitoring, public nuisance, punitive damages on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The October 2008 issue of the Federalist Society’s Class Action Watch is now available for free download at the organization’s website (see link to the March 2008 issue here). This installment includes articles on punitive damage limits, medical monitoring, the selection of lead counsel in securities class actions, product-based public nuisance cases, the impact of conflicts of state law on [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in CAFA Requirements, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged CAFA, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, ERISA Class Action, International Class Action Law, nflpa class action, PLSRA Class Action, RICO Class Action, TCPA Class Action on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some blog posts from the (2) weeks that were that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Responses to the October 29 CABWR “Lay Down the Gauntlet” Challenge of the Week Many thanks to Walter Olson at Point of Law for posting a link to the “Lay Down the Gauntlet” Challenge of the Week from [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged class action art, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law on October 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Art? In one of the more original class action-related blog postings ever featured in the CABWR, Artist Izhar Cohen has created a graphic description of an Israeli court’s recent class action ruling in a case [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, class action reform, Class Action Trends, FACTA, International Class Action Law, tila on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Blog Post Title of the Week CAFA Law Blog‘s entries often make me chuckle, but here is one that had me rolling for some reason (probably lack of sleep due to late night blogging): [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged class action blawg review, class action blog review, class action commentary, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action-Related Post of the Week Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log provides a nice overview of a Massachusetts federal court’s decision to certify two multi-state subclasses of consumers in a case against pharmaceutical companies for allegedly inflating the Average Wholesale Prices (AWPs), used in establishing reimbursement [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged attorneys fees, blawg review, blog review, CAFA, CAFA removal, class action articles, class action blog, class action commentary, Class Action News, class action scandals, Class Action Settlements, Class Action Trends, parens patriae on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions For a “brief” commentary on a case addressing the removability under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of a class action counterclaim by a plaintiff/counterclaim defendant, see this guest commentary from Dallas attorney Jonathan Bridges [...]
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Elena Kagan and Class Actions
Posted in Class Action News, tagged across-the-board, class action commentary, elena kagan, falcon, kagan, sotomayor, u.s. supreme court, unity of interest on May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When the Supreme Court nomination of then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor was announced, I put together this summary of her fairly significant judicial record on class action issues. Finding any record on class action issues for current nominee Elena Kagan has been more of a challenge, since she has not served as a judge. However, Solicitor General Kagan does have a background [...]
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