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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., [...]

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One of the hottest substantive areas in consumer class actions these days is litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S .C. § 227, sometimes called the ”fax blast” statute, which prohibits unsolicited faxes and automated calls for the purpose of commercial solicitation.  The TCPA has a statutory penalty provision that allows consumers to recover $500 for each violation.  The [...]

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Class Action Watch executive director Lawrence W. Schonbrun has an opinion piece in yesterday’s Huffington Post entitled The Class Action Mess in a Nutshell.  In the article, he questions whether the same “weapons of mass destruction” label that Warren Buffet gave to financial derivatives should apply equally to class action lawsuits.  As an example, he offers a [...]

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Over the weekend, John Papianou, class action defense lawyer and Partner at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, sent me a copy of Long v. Tommy Hilfiger U.S.A. Inc., No. 09-1701 (W.D. Pa., February 11, 2011) (link courtesy of www.justia.com), an interesting decision involving the Fair and Accurate Transactions Act of 2003 (“FACTA”), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681c(g), 1681n(a)(1)(A). [...]

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As the new year approaches, everyone seems to be doing a “top ten” list for 2008, so of course, ClassActionBlawg has to have one too.  However, this “top ten” list has two improvements.  First, the rankings will be decided by reader vote.  Second, and even better, it goes to 11! So, here are some key class action [...]

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Here are some blog entries from the week that was that might be of interest to class action practitioners: Class Action Blog Post Title of the Week CAFA Law Blog‘s entries often make me chuckle, but here is one that had me rolling for some reason (probably lack of sleep due to late night blogging): [...]

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The Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review is back on its regularly scheduled day this week.  As always, here are some blog entries that might be of interest to class action practitioners… See Carlton Fields’ class action blog Classified for links to various news tidbits relating to class actions, including a summary of a bill recently passed in [...]

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The Federalist Society Issues a collection of articles relating to class action law every six months or so.  The latest Class Action Watch was issued in late March 2008 and includes articles on seven topics including “reverse bifurcation“, Cy Pres settlements, FACTA truncation, scheme liability, and class action tolling.  For the full index, click here. Thanks to the Mass Tort [...]

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