A recent Ninth Circuit decision on a class action settlement, In re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation, 2022 WL 4492078 (9th Cir. Sept. 28, 2022), received significant attention in the legal ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently weighed in on the effect of uninjured class members on class certification—decertifying three classes in Olean Wholesale Grocery Coop. v. Bee ...
When a class action is removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), plaintiffs sometimes amend their pleadings to try to defeat federal jurisdiction. The recent U.S. Court of ...
The Sixth Circuit concluded a federal judge for the Western District of Tennessee did not abuse its discretion when it certified the class. However, the Third, Fourth, Seventh and Ninth circuits this ...
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These two pressures have probably kept many a consumer attorney up at night as they wrestled with how best to bring a would-be consumer class action in the Third Circuit knowing the case law that ...
BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – An appeals court ruled a class action complaint against Titeflex Corporation over the alleged risk of harm of one of its products is “too speculative” to give rise to the ...
(Reuters) - For class action plaintiffs’ lawyers, there’s a whole lot to like about the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision affirming approval of the $380.5 million Equifax data breach ...
(Reuters) - The en banc 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals intends to clarify whether the federal rules for class action litigation preclude the certification of class actions in which more than a ...