Thanks to New York attorney William R. Weinstein for tipping me off to another hot-off-the-presses decision addressing class arbitration waivers following AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion. In an order entered September 1, 2011 in the MDL case In re Checking Account Overdraft Litigation, Judge James Lawrence King of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘preemption’
Southern District of Florida Holds that Arbitration Agreements May Still Be Found Unconscionable Under State Law After Concepcion
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Federal Court Decisions, tagged arbitration agreement, AT&T Mobility, checking account overdraft, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, FAA, preemption, southern district of florida, state law on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
… And One More Decision Invalidating a Class Arbitration Waiver Following Concepcion
Posted in Class Action Decisions, tagged ambiguity, ambiguous, arbitration, AT&T Mobility, class arbitration waiver, concepcion, FAA, federal preemption, foulke, new jersey, preemption on August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In an entry entitled Concepcion, Four Long Months Later, I summarized several decisions evaluating class arbitration waiver provisions following the Concepcion decision. I neglected to include the case of NAACP of Camden County East v. Foulke Management Corp., ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2011), in which a New Jersey state appellate court held an arbitration provision unenforceable under state law [...]
Forget Dukes and Concepcion, Shady Grove Is Where It’s At
Posted in CLE Programs, Federal Civil Procedure, rule 23, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged class action, erie doctrine, federal preemption, frcp 23, hanna, preemption, procedural, rule 23, shady grove, substantive, Supreme Court on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After the all the activity in the Supreme Court during the October 2010 term, why would anyone want to talk about a decision from the October 2009 term? Isn’t that kind of like showing off your new Blackberry Curve the day after they unveil the iPhone 4? I prefer to think about it this way–it’s like [...]
2010 Class Action Year in Review
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Fairness Act, Federal Court Decisions, Supreme Court Decisions, Uncategorized, tagged 23(b)(2), all writs act, baycol, CAFA, CAFA removal, civil rights class action, class action review, Class Action Trends, class arbitration, class arbitration waiver, discrimination class action, diversity jurisdiction, dukes, FAA, foreign cubed, morrison, nerve center, preemption, rigorous analysis, shady grove, stolt-nielsen, top ten lists, wal-mart, year in review on December 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As 2010 winds down, it’s time to review the key developments in class action law. It was an especially busy year for the federal courts, and in particular the U.S. Supreme Court, on issues impacting class action practice. Here, in chronological order, are 10 key developments from the year that was: January 5 – In In [...]
Supreme Court to Hear Argument on FAA Preemption in Cases Involving Class Arbitration Waivers
Posted in Class Action Trends, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged at&t mobile, class arbitration waivers, concepcion, FAA, federal arbitration act, preemption, scotus, Supreme Court, unconscionability on November 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument next week in a case involving one of the hottest issues in class action law these days, the enforceability of class arbitration waivers. Class arbitration waivers are contract clauses that require arbitration, combined with an agreement to waive the right to pursue any dispute as a class action. AT&T [...]
The United States Supreme Court and Class Actions
Posted in Supreme Court Decisions, tagged CAFA, class action jurisprudence, federalism, preemption, scalia, scotus, shady grove, sotomayor, u.s. supreme court on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m embarrassingly late in posting a link to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates, P.A. v. Allstate Insurance Co., No. 08-1008, slip op. (S. Ct., March 31, 2010) in which the Court held that a New York state rule prohibiting class actions to recover statutory penalties did not apply in a case filed [...]

