The AAJ hasn’t published a “generous dispensers of recompense” list to compete with the ATRA’s list of “judicial hellholes,” as I very seriously suggested yesterday. But the AAJ did send an email response to Robert J. Ambrogi of Legal Blog Watch in response to his well-publicized post yesterday discussing the ATRA report. Ambrogi has summarized the AAJ response in this follow-up entry. [...]
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AAJ Weighs in on “Judicial Hellholes”
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, Class Action Trends, tagged aaj, atra, forum shopping, judicial hellholes on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Class Action Blogosphere Weekly Review
Posted in CAFA Requirements, Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Federal Court Decisions, Other class action blogs, tagged antitrust, blawg review, blog review, blogosphere, CAFA, class action blawg, class action blog, FACTA, forum shopping, franchise class action, merits inquiry, punitive damage, subprime on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Institute for Legal Reform State Lawsuit Climate Rankings Issued
Posted in Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, tagged corporate counsel, forum shopping, general counsel, legal climate, litigation climate, punitive damages, state survey, tort reform on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Institute for Legal Reform, an organization affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has issued its annual report ranking the lawsuit climates of each of the 50 States. This report is an interesting resource for anyone who is interested in class action litigation and forum selection issues. See the following link for the rankings [...]


Debate over Wisconsin Class Action Rule Takes on Increased Significance After Recent Supreme Court Decisions, Arrrr
Posted in class action reform, Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged bayer, class certification, concepcion, dukes, federal class action, forum shopping, frcp 23, rule 23, shady grove, state class action, state court class action, wisconsin class action, wisconsin lawyer on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I noted in my post a few weeks ago for the SCOTUSBlog class action symposium, one issue to which I’m paying particularly close attention these days, particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Shady Grove, Concepcion, Bayer and Dukes, is whether the state court class certification standards begin to diverge from [...]
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