In a recent post entitled Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet?, I invited readers to offer their perspectives on trends in the enforceability of class arbitration waivers now that a year after the Concepcion decision. In response, Jessie Kokrda Kamens at the Bloomberg BNA Class Action Litigation Report send me a copy of her recent article, Post-Concepcion, Plaintiffs Chalk [...]
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More Perspectives on Trends in Class Arbitration Waivers a Year After Concepcion
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, tagged AAA, arbitration, bloomberg, bna, class action litigation report, Class Action Trends, class action waiver, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, kamens, trends on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet?
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, tagged AAA, american express, amex, arbitrability, arbitration, at&t, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, cosumer class action, federal common law, TCPA on May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On May 1, we received the following comment in response to a post from last May entitled Will AT&T v. Concepcion Really Kill the Consumer Class Action? Melissa It has been almost a year. Could someone tell me, in their opinion, what effect Concepcion has had on consumer class actions over the last 11 months? [...]
The Decline of Class Actions, in a Nutshell
Posted in Class Action Trends, tagged adequacy, arbitration, CAFA, Class Action Fairness Act, class action trend, class certification, class definition, commonality, concepcion, dukes, fail-safe, klonoff, lewis and clark, numerosity, nutshell, typicality, wal-mart on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Robert H. Klonoff, Dean of the Lewis and Clark Law School and author of the quintessential class action compendium, Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation in a Nutshell, has authored an excellent research paper entitled The Decline of Class Actions. The paper which will be published in Volume 90 of the Washington University Law Review, [...]
Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog – Much More than Quality Employment Class Actions News
Posted in Class Action Trends, Federal Civil Procedure, Federal Court Decisions, Lawyers' Resources, Other class action blogs, tagged american express merchants, amex III, arbitration, class action, compucredit, concepcion, employment class action, FAA, federal arbitration act, federal common law, federal statutory law, greenwood, iqbal, lewis, mersol, pleading, rule 8, scalia, twombly, unconscionability on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog is constantly putting out quality content, but they have two new recent posts that I would especially recommend to my readers. They include: This February 6 post from John Lewis discussing the impacts, both on employment cases and otherwise, of the Second Circuit’s recent Amex III decision. This February [...]
… More on Amex III
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, tagged american express merchants, amex III, arbitration waiver, class arbitration, concepcion, FAA, stolt-nielsen on February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
As promised in my post late last week, the Baker Hostetler client alert on last week’s Second Circuit decision in In Re American Express Merchants’ Litigation, No. 06-1871 (2d Cir., Feb. 1, 2012) (Amex III) was released today. Here is a link to the alert, authored by New York partner Deborah Renner and Columbus associate Jennifer Vessells, [...]
The Third Circuit Clarifies the Facts About FACTA While the Second Circuit Has a Different Concepcion of Class Arbitration Waivers
Posted in Antitrust Class Actions, Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Consumer Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged arbitration, circuit court of appeals, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, consumer class action, credit card, expiration date, FAA, FACTA, hilfiger, scotus, second circuit, stolt-nielsen, Supreme Court, third circuit on February 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Two readers sent me tips yesterday on important decisions from the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals that will be of interest to class action practitioners: First, John G. Papianou of the Philadelphia firm Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP forwarded a copy of the Third Circuit’s decision in Long v. Tommy Hilfiger U.S.A., Inc., No. 11-1554 (3d Cir., [...]
Notes From the 15th Annual National Institute on Class Actions
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged at&t, AT&T Mobility, class action, class action notice, class action trial, class notice, concepcion, discover bank, dukes, empire cases, iqbal, kinsella, national institute, objector, plain language notice, professional objector, twombly, wal-mart, weinstein, wheatman on October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was not able to attend the ABA National Institute on Class Actions program in New York City last week, but class action notice expert and occasional CAB contributor, Dr. Shannon R. Wheatman, Vice President, Kinsella Media (swheatman@kinsellamedia.com), was there and she graciously agreed to send me her notes of what sounds like another great [...]
Supreme Court Considers New Attack on Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements
Posted in Class Action News, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged arbitration, arbitration agreement, class action, class action waiver, class arbitration waiver, compucredit, concepcion, consumer class action, consumer rights, croa, FAA, federal arbitration, greenwood, oral argument, scotus, Supreme Court on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It has only been a few months since the Supreme Court issued its decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, holding that state laws holding class arbitration waivers unenforceable as against public policy are preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), and the Court is already considering a new case involving the enforceability of arbitration agreements in consumer contracts. [...]
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 [...]
Class Actions Won’t Die this Easily
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged arbitration, AT&T Mobility, class action, concepcion, death knell, dukes, Supreme Court, wal-mart on September 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
UPI contributor Michael Kirkland published a recent article entitled Is Class Action on Its Last Shaky Legs, in which he quotes several legal experts as predicting that the Supreme Court’s recent rulings in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes and AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion could spell the end of the class action lawsuit. But, near the end of [...]
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