As 2010 winds down, it’s time to review the key developments in class action law. It was an especially busy year for the federal courts, and in particular the U.S. Supreme Court, on issues impacting class action practice. Here, in chronological order, are 10 key developments from the year that was: January 5 – In In [...]
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2010 Class Action Year in Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Federal Court Decisions, Supreme Court Decisions, Uncategorized, tagged 23(b)(2), all writs act, baycol, CAFA, CAFA removal, civil rights class action, class action review, Class Action Trends, class arbitration, class arbitration waiver, discrimination class action, diversity jurisdiction, dukes, FAA, foreign cubed, morrison, nerve center, preemption, rigorous analysis, shady grove, stolt-nielsen, top ten lists, wal-mart, year in review on December 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged attorneys fees, blawg review, blog review, CAFA, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action News, class action publicity, class action review, Class Action Trends, fee sharing, fee splitting, International Class Action Law on September 23, 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 Decisions The UCL Practitioner quotes a recent California Court of Appeal decision reversing a trial court’s order denying class certification on the ground that the court had not allowed pre-certification discovery of the identity of [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged attorneys fees, blawg review, blog review, canadian class action law, Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, class action review, Class Action Trends, class certification on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions Law and Insurance discusses a recent Texas Supreme Court decision holding that a duty to defend was triggered in the context of class actions in which the plaintiffs argued that an alleged product [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged blawg review, blog review, Class Action News, class action review, Class Action Trends on July 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 Decisions Here is a great new entry from North Carolina Business Litigation Report summarizing a recent NC supreme court decision that addresses several interesting Rule 23 issues, including pre-certification dismissal without court [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged blog review, blogosphere review, class action blog, class action review, conflict of interest, fen-phen, FLSA, kickback scandals on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of the week already. Here are some blog postings from the past week that might be of interest to class action practitioners. The fallout from several plaintiffs’ class action corruption scandals took center stage in the class action blogosphere this week. Mass Tort Litigation Blog discusses the sentencing of plaintiffs’ class action lawyer Melvyn Weiss… http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mass_tort_litigation/2008/06/mel-weiss-recei.html [...]


Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, Other class action blogs, tagged blawg review, blog review, class action commentary, Class Action News, class action review, Class Action Trends on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Decisions The Complex Litigator has breaking news on a significant decision issued today by the California Court of Appeal reversing, on predominance grounds, a class certification order in a wage and hour [...]
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