I have to put in a little pitch for one of the many worthy blogs nominated for the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 awards this year. I must admit my bias. TheRacetotheBottom.org is edited by one of my favorite law school professors, Jay Brown, and the contributors are students and other faculty from my alma mater, the University [...]
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Vote for TheRacetotheBottom.org in the Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 Competition
Posted in Other class action blogs, tagged aba journal, blawg, corporate governance, securities class action on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Presentation Materials for Tomorrow’s CLE Webinar on the Supreme Court’s Dukes, Bayer, and Halliburton Decisions
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged bayer, class certification, cle, CLE program, commonality, dukes, eisen, employment class action, erica p. john fund, fraud on the market, halliburton, securities class action, smith v. bayer, webinar on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for tomorrow’s Strafford Publications Webinar Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton Rulings. As a preview, here is a copy of the written materials for my portion of the presentation, Opposing Class Certification After Dukes, Bayer and Halliburton. I hope you can make it.
2010-11 U.S. Supreme Court Class Action Tally: Defendants 1, Plaintiffs 1
Posted in rule 23, Securities Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged erica p. john, fifth circuit, fraud on the market, frcp 23, preponderance, presumption of reliance, rule 23, securities class action, securities fraud on June 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just when we were starting to think that 2011 might mark the end of the great American class action… Today, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision reversing a denial of class certification in the securities class action Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., No. 09-1403, slip op (June 6, 2011). In the opinion, authored by [...]
Setting the Record Straight on Class Action Claims Aggregators
Posted in Articles, Class Action Trends, tagged antitrust class action, claims compensation bureau, class action claims aggregator, class action settlement, securities class action on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Editor’s note: Earlier this month, I posted an entry entitled Class Action Claims Aggregators, the Latest Innovation in Entrepreneurial Litigation, an admittedly glib post that inaccurately described the phenomenon of private companies aggregating class action settlement claims for clients as a new one. As it turns out, these services have existed for years. Adam Savett, attorney and Director [...]
Class Action Claims Aggregators, the Latest Innovation in Entrepreneurial Litigation
Posted in Class Action Trends, tagged class action aggregator, class action settlement, investor, liquidclaims, sec enforcement, securities class action, securities fraud, settlement administrator, settlement claim on April 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An article published Tuesday by John D’Antona Jr. at Trader’s Magazine Online News entitled Getting a Piece of the Class Action Pie discusses a creative new idea for making a buck on class action settlements. The article discusses a service offered by a New Jersey financial technology company called LiquidClaims, Inc. According to the article, LiquidClaims has an algorithm that matches [...]
Cornerstone Research Issues Annual Report on Securities Class Action Settlements
Posted in Class Action Settlements, Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, Securities Class Actions, tagged "plaintiff-style" damages, accounting principles, class action settlement, cornerstone research, institutional investor, pslra, reform act, securities class action, securities class action settlement on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, Cornerstone Research published its annual report titled Securities Class Action Settlements–2010 Review and Analysis. Among the findings in this year’s report: The number of approved securities class action settlements was at a 10-year low The total dollar value of settlements decreased 17% from 2009 to 2010, The median settlement amount was up 40%, but the average [...]
Workplace and Securities Class Action Trends
Posted in Class Action Trends, Reports and Surveys, tagged class action report, employment class action, employment litigation, m & a class action, securities class action, wage and hour class action, workplace class action, workplace litigation on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m late for my Inns of Court dinner, so time does not permit me to elaborate in detail, but I wanted to point out two recent class action-related reports of note. Be sure to check them out. 1) Seyfarth Shaw’s Seventh Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. 2) Cornerstone Research, Securities Class Action Filings, 2010 [...]
Supreme Court Adds a Fourth Class Action Case to its Docket
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Federal Civil Procedure, Federal Court Decisions, Securities Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged burden of proof, class certification, erica p. john fund, fraud on the market, halliburton, price inflation, scotus, securities class action, securities fraud, Supreme Court, u.s. supreme court on January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Instead of a trilogy of class action decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, it looks like there will be a “quadrilogy“! For the fourth time in the October 2010 Term, the Court has granted certiorari in a class action-related case. Today, the Court granted cert in Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., No. 09-1403. The [...]
Class Action Blogosphere Periodic Review
Posted in Class Action Trends, Supreme Court Decisions, Class Action News, Employment Class Actions, Class Action Decisions, Securities Class Actions, Consumer Class Actions, tagged collateral estoppel, consumer class action, securities class action, class arbitration waiver, class action waiver, wage and hour class action, ascertainability, concepcion, AT&T Mobility, all writs act, fast food class action, mcdonald's class action, expert witness discovery, rule 26(a)(2), oppression remedy, hooters on November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s back! We can’t promise that it will appear weekly, so we changed the name to Class Action Blogosphere “Periodic” Review. But, as always, we have combed through our favorite blogs and news feeds to bring our readers up to speed on a some of the notable developments in class action news. The End of [...]
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Association, Causation, and the Fuzzy World of the Baysian p-Value in Class Actions
Posted in Class Action Trends, Commentary, tagged 10-b, 10b, anosmia, basic, baysian, class action statistics, hopson, kaye, matrixx, p-value, reasonable investor, scientific evidence, securities, securities class action, securities fraud, statistics, zicam on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
David H. Kaye, Distinguished Professor of Law and Weiss Family Faculty Scholar at the Penn State School of Law, recently published a fascinating commentary in the BNA Insights section of the BNA Product Safety & Liability and Class Action Reporters, entitled Trapped in the Matrixx: The U.S. Supreme Court And the Need for Statistical Significance. In the article, [...]
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