In preparing for our webinar on the use of statistics in class actions tomorrow, I discovered that the California Supreme Court has granted review in Duran v. U.S. Bank, a case that could have major implications for the future of statistical sampling as common proof in class actions. See my April 6, 2012 post titled Trial [...]
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California Supreme Court to Weigh in on Statistical Sampling in Class Actions
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, tagged brinker, california supreme court, class action, class certification, duran, inference, regression, sampling, statistical evidence, statistics, statistics in class actions, trial by formula, wage and hour on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Not too Late to Sign up for Next Week’s CLE Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged american honda motor, class actions, daubert, dukes, expert witness, statistics, wal-mart on May 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for next Wednesday’s Strafford Publications Webinar, Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility, Expert Witnesses and Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Click the link on the title of the program for more information and to sign up. For anyone looking for sneak preview, here are the program slides, which were are the result [...]
Can’t Get Enough of Statistics in Class Actions? This Webinar Is for You!
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged class certification, cle, CLE program, daubert, dukes, expert witness, statistics, strafford, wal-mart on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure that WordPress site statististics would be admissible in a class action as proof of readers’ interest, but the recent CAB site stats do appear to show some level of interest in the topic of statistics in class actions. So, readers may be interested in an upcoming Strafford Publications webinar in which I will be participating on May 23, [...]
Another Viewpoint on “Trial by Formula”
Posted in Class Action Trends, tagged class action, drogin, dukes, lahav, mass action, mass tort, sampling, statistical method, statistics, trial by formula, wal-mart on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you interested in the topic of statistics in mass and class actions, U. Conn. Law Professor and Mass Tort Litigation Blog contributor Alexandra D. Lahav has written an academic paper on the subject in the Texas Law Review, aptly entitled The Case for “Trial by Formula.” For Professor Lahav’s synopsis of the paper, a link to [...]
Trial By Formula, Statistical Sampling, and the Right to Due Process
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action Trends, Employment Class Actions, tagged drogin, due process, dukes, predominance, sampling, statistical sampling, statistics, trial by formula, wal-mart on April 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s Note: This is a joint post for ClassActionBlawg and the newly-launched Baker Hostetler Class Action Lawsuit Defense Blog. Be sure to bookmark the Baker Hostetler blog at www.classactionlawsuitdefense.com for the latest in class action trends and decisions. A common temptation in class action litigation is to fashion procedures based on “rough justice” to avoid overburdening the courts or attempting [...]
Don’t Forget to Sign Up for Our Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions, this Thursday at 1:00 PM EDT
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, tagged class actions, daubert, dukes, expert testimony, regression analysis, statistical, statistics, wal-mart on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not too late to sign up for this Thursday’s Strafford Publications Webinar, entitled Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility and the Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Click the link on the title of the program for more information and to sign up. For anyone looking for sneak preview, here are the program materials, which [...]
Don’t Miss the Upcoming Strafford CLE Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions
Posted in CLE Programs, tagged class actions, class certification, daubert, descriptive statistics, dukes, expert testimony, expert witness, inferential statistics, regression analysis, shreck, statistical evidence, statistician, statistics, wal-mart on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m very excited to be speaking at an upcoming Strafford Publications CLE webinar entitled: Statistics in Class Action Litigation: Admissibility and the Impact of Wal-Mart v. Dukes. The program is scheduled for Thursday, October 6, at 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT. This is a beefed up version of a presentation that Justin Hopson and I did for the Colorado Bar Association class actions [...]
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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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