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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘class certification’
Dukes, Medical Monitoring, and the Distinction Between Equitable and Injunctive Relief
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Practice Tips, rule 23, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged 23(b)(2), class certification, commonality, daubert, dukes, equitable, expert, injunctive relief, medical monitoring, rule 23, scotus, Supreme Court, wal-mart on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t Miss Tuesday’s Strafford CLE Webinar on Class Action Objectors
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class action objector, class action settlement, class certification, final approval, government objector, greenmail, professional objector, public interest objector, rule 23 on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Colorado Supreme Court Issues Four Decisions Addressing Class Action Issues
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Colorado Civil Procedure, Colorado Class Action News, tagged asbestos, bp america, burden of proof, causation, class cert, class certification, class-wide proof, colorado supreme court, common evidence, common proof, crcp 23, garcia, jackson, medved, patterson, preponderance, reliance, reyher, rigorous analysis, rule 23, state farm, unocal on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Newsletter Highlights Key Class Action Developments
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged arbitration, AT&T Mobility, Baker Hostetler, class action, class action waiver, class arbitration, class arbitration waiver, class certification, concepcion, daubert, dukes, expert testimony, FAA, wal-mart on October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Debate over Wisconsin Class Action Rule Takes on Increased Significance After Recent Supreme Court Decisions, Arrrr
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged bayer, class certification, concepcion, dukes, federal class action, forum shopping, frcp 23, rule 23, shady grove, state class action, state court class action, wisconsin class action, wisconsin lawyer on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Don’t Miss the Upcoming Strafford CLE Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class actions, class certification, daubert, descriptive statistics, dukes, expert testimony, expert witness, inferential statistics, regression analysis, shreck, statistical evidence, statistician, statistics, wal-mart on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Perspectives on the October 2010 Supreme Court Term
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged bayer, class action, class certification, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, scotus, scotusblog, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court, wal-mart on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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
Don’t Miss the Class Action Symposium on SCOTUSblog
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Commentary, Other class action blogs, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged class action, class action symposium, Class Action Trends, class certification, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, scotus, smith v. bayer, Supreme Court, wal-mart on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Presentation Materials for Tomorrow’s CLE Webinar on the Supreme Court’s Dukes, Bayer, and Halliburton Decisions
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged bayer, class certification, cle, CLE program, commonality, dukes, eisen, employment class action, erica p. john fund, fraud on the market, halliburton, securities class action, smith v. bayer, webinar on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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.


Jackson v. Unocal – Class Actions Find a Welcome Home in Colorado
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Colorado Civil Procedure, Colorado Class Action News, Commentary, tagged bp america, class action, class certification, colorado, colorado supreme court, conditional certification, crcp 23, decertification, dukes, frcp 23, garcia, jackson, medved, patterson, reyher, rigorous analysis, rule 23, state farm, unocal, wal-mart on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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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