The latest issue of the Federalist Society’s Class Action Watch is now up and available on the organization’s website. Thanks to Randy Maniloff of White and Williams LLP, for the tip. A synopsis of Maniloff’s own contribution to the issue, from the author himself, appears below. Other interesting topics covered in the issue include trends in mortgage-backed securities litigation, [...]
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May 2009 Federalist Society Class Action Watch Now Available
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, tagged class action article, class action scholarship, federalist society, qui tam on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Federalist Society Class Action Watch Available
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged class action commentary, Class Action Trends, federalist society, lead counsel, medical monitoring, public nuisance, punitive damages on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The October 2008 issue of the Federalist Society’s Class Action Watch is now available for free download at the organization’s website (see link to the March 2008 issue here). This installment includes articles on punitive damage limits, medical monitoring, the selection of lead counsel in securities class actions, product-based public nuisance cases, the impact of conflicts of state law on [...]
Check out the Federalist Society Class Action Watch
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, Other class action blogs, tagged cy pres, FACTA, FACTA truncation, federalist society, reverse bifurcation, scheme liability, tolling on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]


CAFA Makes Strange Bedfellows of Trial Lawyers and Strict Constructionists
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, Commentary, tagged atla, CAFA, Class Action Fairness Act, federalist society, originalism, originalist, strict constructionism, strict constructionist, textualism, textualist, trial lawyer on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Moller of the Cato Institute posted this commentary today arguing that true originalists should not be so quick to extol the virtues of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), which is often hailed as a conservative victory in tort reform. Moller and various other conservative commentators argue that the Act, which expands the statutory grant of [...]
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