I am just about set to head overseas to the Netherlands to attend the Fifth Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, which starts on Thursday, December 8. At last count, there were more than 150 registrants for this year’s conference, including yours truly and Andrew Trask of the blog ClassActionCountermeasures. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘international class action’
It’s International Class Actions Week at ClassActionBlawg.com
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged collective action, global class action, international class action, transnational class action on December 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Will the Birds Stay South?” Highlights Developments in Collective Actions in Latin America
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged argentina, brazil, collective action, columbia, gomez, international class action, International Class Action Law, latin america, latin american class action, mexico on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you interested in trends in class and collective actions in other parts of the world, check out the recent article by Manuel A. Gómez, Associate Professor at Florida International University College of Law, entitled Will the Birds Stay South? The Rise of Class Actions and Other Forms of Group Litigation Across Latin [...]
5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, December 8-9, 2011
Posted in CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged global class action, globalization, hensler, hodges, international class action, tilburg on September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The avid reader of CAB (maybe there are more than one of you now, but I don’t want to be presumptuous) will notice that I often comment on developments in class and collective actions outside the United States. If you really want to keep abreast of the exiting trends in representative and multi-party litigation around the [...]
Mexico Joins the Class Action Club
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged class action reform, collective action, international class action, latin america class action, mexican class action, mexican collective action, mexico on September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On Friday afternoon, I received a comment to a December post entitled Are Class Actions About to Make a Run for the Border? that deserved a more conspicuous mention. The comment came from Mexican attorney Jorge de Hoyos Walther, who had the following update on the status of legislation in Mexico introducing collective actions: In April 2011 [...]
Which Side Would Hemingway Pick? Collective Redress Battles Privacy Rights in Spain
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged ADICAE, BBVA, collective action, collective action notice, Data Protection Act, european class action, european collective action, international class action, opt in, spain, spanish, spanish class action on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Berta Baz published this article yesterday in Money Market UK, which may be of interest anyone who tracks developments in class and collective actions abroad. The article discusses the tension between a collective action notice procedure and the Spanish Data Protection Act. According to the article, a Madrid court issued an order requiring the Spanish bank BBVA to produce electronic customer data [...]
Is Victoria Province About to Top the ATRF’s List of Judicial Hellholes?
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged australia class action, australian class action, contingency fee, contingent fee, fee sharing, fee splitting, IMF, IMF Australia, international class action, litigation funding on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Third party litigation funding has become intriguing development in the expansion of global class and collective action litigation over the past several years, particularly in Australia. (For various previous CAB articles addressing third party litigation funding, click here). The concept of third party litigation funding generally refers to financing of litigation by a private party or corporation that is [...]
Moose Collision Litigation, the Wave of the Future in Canadian Class Actions?
Posted in Class Action Humor, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged british columbia, canada class action, canadian class action, class action in canada, international class action, manitoba, moose class action, moose collision, negligence class action, newfoundland class action on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you’re a Canadian class action lawyer looking for next big thing in class actions, moose collision litigation was looking pretty promising. As mentioned in this October 19 CAB entry, a class action was filed against the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador for alleged negligence in introducing moose into the area early last century, causing an excessive [...]
Vivendi Verdict Thickens Plot in Foreign-Cubed Class Action Battle
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Securities Class Actions, Uncategorized, tagged f-cubed, foreign cubed, international class action, morrison, securities class action, securities fraud, transnational class action, vivendi on February 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
As reported by a variety of news outlets, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, on January 29, a federal jury found French conglomerate Vivendi liable for securities fraud, setting the stage for a potential multi-billion dollar damages award. In 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York had made headlines [...]
Cert Granted in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd.
Posted in International Class Action Law, Securities Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged foreign class action, foreign cubed, international class action, morrison, national australia bank, securities class action, transnational class action on December 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari to review the Second Circuit’s decision in the ”foreign-cubed” securities class action Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., No. 07-0583-cv (2d Cir. 2008). The Second Circuit’s decision is discussed at some length in this October 28, 2008 CAB Entry. The Supreme Court docket number is 08-1191. The questions presented for review are [...]
If You’re an Inhabitant of the Planet Earth, A Lawsuit May Affect Your Rights
Posted in Class Action News, International Class Action Law, tagged armageddon, atom smasher, black hole, cern, global class action, international class action, lhc, particle, particle accelerator on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Science editor Mark Henderson has a story on the Times Online’s blog Eureka about what could be the largest representative action ever filed in the history of the world. The complaint, filed with the UN Human Rights Committee, seeks to save every inhabitant of the planet (and perhaps the entire solar system) from what could be imminent [...]
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