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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 [...]

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It’s not too late to sign up for next Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar entitled Class Action Settlement Objectors, Minimizing and Defending Challenges by Professional Objectors, Government Officials and Public Interest Groups.  Here is a link to the registration page for the webinar, and see the synopsis below.  New Jersey Appellate Law Blog‘s Bruce Greenberg and I will be the [...]

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Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decisions in Smith v. Bayer and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, I have wondered aloud whether we would start to see a significant divergence between the standards applicable to class certification in the state and federal courts.  (See the Parting Thoughts Section of this August 31 SCOTUSBlog Post).  My home state [...]

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The Colorado Supreme Court’s highly anticipated rulings in four class actions were announced earlier today.  Here are links to the opinions.  I’ll have more commentary on the four decisions soon: No. 09SC668 – Jackson v. Unocal Corp. – Judgment Reversed (class certification upheld) - Addresses the burden of proof on class certification.   No. 09SC1080 – Garcia v. [...]

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Today’s edition of the Baker Hostetler Employment Class Actions Newsletter has two great articles worth noting. My colleague here in Denver, Holli Hartman, authored an article summarizing developments in challenges to class arbitration waivers following the Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. Cleveland Partner Greg Mersol and Summer Associate George Skupski contributed an entry examining the application [...]

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As I noted in my post a few weeks ago for the SCOTUSBlog class action symposium, one issue to which I’m paying particularly close attention these days, particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Shady Grove, Concepcion, Bayer and Dukes, is whether the state court class certification standards begin to diverge from [...]

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I’m very excited to be speaking at an upcoming Strafford Publications CLE webinar entitled: Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility and the Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes.   The program is scheduled for Thursday, October 6, at  1:00pm-2:30pm EDT.  This is a beefed up version of a presentation that Justin Hopson and I did for the Colorado Bar Association class actions [...]

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My submission to the SCOTUSblog Class Action Symposium is now available for viewing.  Click the title below for the link: The October 2010 Supreme Court Term in review: For defendants, life returns to normal after the celebration ends

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The award-winning U.S. Supreme Court blog SCOTUSblog is presenting a symposium on recent Supreme Court developments in the area of class actions that you won’t want to miss.  Click here for an introduction to the symposium and here to see a list of the various contributions as they are released. I’m extremely honored to be listed [...]

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It’s not too late to sign up for tomorrow’s Strafford Publications Webinar Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings.   As a preview, here is a copy of the written materials for my portion of the presentation, Opposing Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton.  I hope you can make it.  

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