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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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 »
Recent Trends in Federal Class Certification Standards
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Federal Civil Procedure, rule 23, tagged american honda motor, class certification, class certification standard, class certification trends, daubert, dukes v. wal-mart, eisen, expert testimony, frcp 23, in re ipo, regression analysis, rigorous analysis, rule 23, statistical evidence on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m embarrassingly late in reporting on them, but I would be remiss if I did not mention two key recent United States Circuit Courts of Appeals decisions addressing the legal standards governing class certification under FRCP 23: In American Honda Motor Co. v. Allen, No. 09-8051 (7th Cir., April 7, 2010) the Seventh Circuit held that a district court abused [...]


From the Annals of Class Action Jurisprudence – 1973 – Second Circuit Decision Could “Bring an End to Mass Class-Action Lawsuits”
Posted in Commentary, legal history, tagged class action history, class certification, eisen, eisen rule, merits determination, rigorous analysis on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While doing some research today on another issue, I came across this news clipping from the May 3, 1973 issue of the St. Petersberg Times discussing a federal court of appeals decision in a class action decided a few days before. The article begins: NEW YORK – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of [...]
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