After 12 years of litigation, a trial court in Germany has finally reached a decision in a landmark case for group actions in European civil law jurisdictions. The court decided that Deutsche Telekom did not make false or misleading statements of fact in a prospectus for a secondary stock offering in 2000. The case was [...]
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Finally, a Decision in the Groundbreaking Group Action Against Deutsche Telekom
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged capital market proceedings act, civil law, deutsche telekom, european class action, german class action, group litigation, international class action, kapmug, model proceeding, multi-party litigation, prospectus liability, representative action, securities class action, telekom on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
World Class Actions Update
Posted in International Class Action Law, Lawyers' Resources, tagged global class action, international class action, International Class Action Law, oup, oxford, transnational class action, world class actions on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you interested in the forthcoming book, World Class Actions, here’s a quick update. The page proofs should be ready by the end of next week, and barring unexpected delay, we are still on pace for an early summer publication date. For those that haven’t yet heard about the book, it is a [...]
BH Class Action Lawsuit Defense Blog Post: Class and Collective Actions in the Age of Globalization
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged 10b, 10b-5, AAA, alien tort, atca, australia class action, australian class action, canada class action, canadian class action, chevron, class arbitration, collective settlement, dutch class action, dutch law, ecuador, f-cubed, foreign cubed, global class action, international arbitration, international class action, israeli class action, kiobel, morrison, national australia bank, netherlands class action, stolt-nielsen, transnational class action, us class action on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: The following is a copy of a post that I did for the recently-released Baker Hostetler Class Action Lawsuit Defense Blog. Be sure to check out the new blog for other fantastic class-action-related content! Globalization has brought with it the growing problem of how to deal with mass disputes that transcend jurisdictional boundaries, as [...]
Are US Class Actions in Danger of Being Outsourced to Mexico?
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, Reports and Surveys, Securities Class Actions, tagged australia class action, f-cubed, foreign cubed, international class action, mexican class action, mexico, mexico class action, morrison, national australia bank, securities class action on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin LaCroix, whose blog The D&O Diary is a premier source for the latest trends in securities-related class action litigation, has an excellent post out today discussing two key developments in an area that is very close to my heart, international class action litigation. The first part of LaCroix’s post discusses a recent publication from Asia-based International law firm King & Wood Mallesons discussing class action [...]
Please Excuse the Silence
Posted in General Site Information, International Class Action Law, tagged international class action on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m taking a week or two off of blogging to work on the copy edited chapters for the World Class Actions book. So far, most of the authors have been great at getting their chapters back to me with revisions, so I remain optimistic that we’ll be able to keep the publication schedule on track. [...]
Recognition and Enforcement of U.S. Class Action Judgments and Settlements in European Civil Law Countries
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged civil law, collateral estoppel, collective action, enforceability, eu, europe, f-cubed, foreign cubed, international class action, res judicata, schweitz, suisse, swiss, swiss class action, transnational class action on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In this era of globalization, one key issues in international class and collective actions is the recognition of foreign judgments by countries who lack the same collective or class action procedures. I was recently introduced to a lawyer and scholar, Leandro Perucchi, who published his PhD thesis on this topic. Dr. Perucchi’s book, with the German title [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 6 – Paths to (Mass) Justice
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged Class Action Trends, collective action, collective redress, european class action, european collective action, international class action, mass harm, mass injury, mass tort, prediction on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This is the sixth and final installment of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, Session 4, and Session 5. Paths to (Mass) Justice To wrap up the conference, Dr. Sam [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 5 – Who Has Jurisdiction in a Global Market?
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged cashman, chevron, globalization, gomez, groenewout, hensler, international class action, international mdl, lago agrio, mdl, multi-national, multi-national class action, scheurleer, securities, sour lake, texaco, toxic tort, transnational, transnational class action on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This is the fifth in a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, and Session 4. Who Has Jurisdiction in a Global Market? This presentation was chaired by Professor Deborah Hensler, Stanford [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session II – Who’s Paying?
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, australia, cameron, cartel claims, class action, class action funding, collective litigation, cost shifting, european class action, fee shifting, foris, hodges, ilf, IMF, international class action, litigation funder, litigation funding, loser pays, Meincke, netherlands, omni bridgeway, private litigation funder, schreiber, vaughn walker, wieling on December 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This is part II of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. For the introduction, see part I posted yesterday. Who’s Paying? New Developments in Funding Professor Christopher Hodges, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford/Erasmus University (and a co-sponsor and co-founder of the conference) [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session I – The Challenge of Mass Communications
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, Uncategorized, tagged aggregated action, class action, collective action, dexia, dutch class action, european class action, globalization, international class action, mass action, mass communication, PR, public relations, taco bell on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation was even better than advertised. It was an engaging and enlightened gathering of the world’s top experts in the areas of class, collective, and mass litigation. And what better environment to have a conference on developments in international law than at the beautiful and historic Raad [...]
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