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Class Certification Mortgage-Backed Securities

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Citigroup, Goldman, and UBS to Pay $235 Million Settlement in MBS Class Action

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On February 13, 2015, the plaintiffs in New Jersey Carpenters Health Fund, et al., v. Residential Capital, LLC, et al., No. 08-cv-8781 (S.D.N.Y.) filed an unopposed motion for certification of the class and to approve a...more

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MBS Investor Class Partially Certified Against J.P. Morgan

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On September 30, Judge Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially certified a class of MBS investors under Rule 23(b) in Fort Worth Employees’ Retirement Fund v. J.P. Morgan Chase &...more

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Court Takes Cue from Comcast v. Behrend, Certifies Class as to Liability but not Damages

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In what appears to be an increasingly common practice since the Supreme Court decided Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 133 S.Ct. 1426 (2013), the Southern District of New York recently certified a class as to liability, but rejected...more

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Texas District Court Denies Class Certification for Hedge Fund Investors on Numerosity and Predominance Grounds

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In 2008, investors in the Parkcentral hedge fund lost as much as $3 billion dollars when Parkcentral’s investment in commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) was devalued. The investors, limited partners of Parkcentral,...more

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