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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 »
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. [...]
More on Mexico’s New Class Action Law
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged class action frontier, Class Action Legislation, cross-border class action, International Class Action Law, latin america, latin america class action, mexican class action, mexican collective action, mexico, transnational class action on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A recent CAB post entitled Mexico Joins the Class Action Club provided an update from Mexican attorney Jorge de Hoyos Walther on the passage of recent legislation in Mexico introducing class actions. If that post piqued your interest, check out this new article authored by Catherine Dunn for Corporate Counsel magazine (available at Law.com) entitled Mexico’s [...]
Supreme Court Justices Take on Foreign-Cubed Problem
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Securities Class Actions, Supreme Court Decisions, tagged f-cubed, foreign cubed, morrison, scotus, securities class action, Supreme Court, transnational class action on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in the foreign cubed securities class action Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., Case No. 08-1191. A copy of the transcript is available on the Court’s website. Professor Hannah L. Buxbaum, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law at Bloomington, has [...]
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 [...]
Class Action Lawyers Make a Run for the Border
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged antitrust class action, canada class action, canadian class action law, ontario class action, parallel class action, securities class action, transnational class action on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Julie Treadman of the American Lawyer published this intriguing article today summarizing her interview with former Milberg attorney Andrew Morganti, who has been working as a consultant for a plaintiff’s class action firm in Ontario, Canada. Morganti provides his perspectives on the fast-developing areas of securities and antitrust class action law in Canada, opportunities for U.S. class [...]
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