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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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 »
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.
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Summons Amchem and Ortiz in Rejecting Class Action Settlement
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Settlements, Federal Court Decisions, tagged adequacy, amchem, class action objectors, class action settlement, class certification, fairness hearing, final approval, ortiz, second circuit on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I have noted in a series of posts recently, class action settlement objectors should not be taken lightly. (See this August 1, 2011 post and others cited within). Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals offered an excellent case in point in its decision in In re Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation, No. [...]
Don’t Miss this Exciting CLE Webinar: “Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings”
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged bayer, class certification, CLE program, dukes, erica p. john fund, halliburton, rule 23, scotus, smith v. bayer, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court, wal-mart, webinar on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For those of you who simply can’t get enough of the Supreme Court’s recent class action rulings, I will be speaking in an upcoming live phone/web seminar sponsored by Strafford Publications entitled “Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings.” The Webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, August 30, 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT. Here is a summary: The [...]
Don’t Miss Next Week’s CBA-CLE Legal Connection Program, Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged 23(b)(2), class certification, classwide proof, cle, common proof, commonality, continuing legal education, daubert, disparate impact, dukes, employment class action, expert testimony, rigorous analysis, scotus, statistical evidence, Supreme Court, wal-mart on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Along with leading Colorado Employment attorney Todd J. McNamara, I’ll be presenting at a breakfast seminar at the CBA-CLE next Tuesday with the (hopefully) self-explanatory title: Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Reshaping Class Certification. The particulars follow below. Hope to see you there! When: July 12, 2011 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Where: CLECI Large Classroom 1900 Grant Street, Suite 300 [...]
Don’t Miss the Upcoming CBA Class Action Subsection Luncheon, “Statistics in the Courtroom”
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged cba, class action statistics, class action subsection, class certification, dukes, regression analysis, statistical evidence, wal-mart on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Colorado litigators, I hope you will consider attending our next Class Action Subsection Luncheon scheduled for next Thursday, June 30, 2011 at noon. The topic is “Statistics in the Courtroom.” I will be presenting the law, and my co-presenter, Justin Hopson of Hitachi Consulting, will be presenting the science. Among other things, we will analyze the [...]
Thoughts on Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Commentary, Employment Class Actions, Federal Civil Procedure, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged adverse impact, class certification, daubert, dukes, employment class action, expert witness, ginsburg, rigorous analysis, rule 23, scalia, statistical evidence, statistical proof, Supreme Court, wal-mart on June 20, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Many commentators correctly that the decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes would be favorable to business interests. However, unlike the Court’s earlier decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, the decision does not necessarily threaten to sound a death knell for class actions or even a particular category of class actions. Instead, the decision merely clarifies the standards on which future class actions are to [...]
Canadian Moose Collision Class Action Is a … Go??!
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, International Class Action Law, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, class certification, International Class Action Law, moose class action, moose collision, N.L. class action, newfoundland class action on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The premise sounds ridiculous, but maybe there’s more to it after all. This quote from moose collision class action lawyer Ches Crosbie sums it up: Six months ago when we launched this class action, most people in the province thought that we were a bit crazy. Count most observers from outside the province as sharing that [...]
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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
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