Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! Our spring edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2019.
There was a veritable traffic jam in the courts for the automotive industry. Manufacturers saw...more
6/28/2019
/ Antitrust Litigation ,
Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Automotive Industry ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Call-In Pay ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
FACTA ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
FRCP 23 ,
Groundwater ,
Off-Label Promotion ,
TCPA ,
Water Pollution
Welcome to the latest edition of Class Action Roundup, covering the fourth quarter of 2016. As has been the case throughout the year, class actions continue to play a key role in courtrooms across the...more
Welcome to the second 2016 edition of Class Action Roundup! The first quarter of the year witnessed a few key Supreme Court decisions, even with the passing of Justice Scalia, and several settlement cases decided. The issue...more
6/27/2016
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Bank of America ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
HAMP ,
Loan Modifications ,
Popular ,
Price-Fixing ,
Statistical Sampling ,
TCPA ,
Wage and Hour ,
Young Lawyers
Where the (Class) Action Is -
This issue of Roundup wraps up 2015 with another slate of interesting cases spanning industries and subject matter. The running theme of ascertainability is now stretching into antitrust...more
4/20/2016
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Ascertainable Class ,
Banking Sector ,
Chemical Spills ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
FDCPA ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Google ,
Hackers ,
Minimum Wage ,
Pipelines ,
Popular ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
Private Nuisance ,
RICO ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Smart Car ,
Standing ,
TCPA ,
Uber ,
Wage and Hour ,
Yahoo! ,
Young Lawyers
The big news this quarter is the U.S. Supreme Court’s acceptance of Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, an employment case likely to have major ramifications across the whole spectrum of class action litigation. The Court is set...more
9/17/2015
/ Ascertainable Class ,
Bank of America ,
Boeing ,
CAFA ,
Class Action ,
Class Arbitration ,
Class Certification ,
Daubert Hearing ,
Disparate Impact ,
Doffing ,
Donning ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Equifax ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
FDCPA ,
GNC ,
H-2A ,
Kraft ,
Levi Strauss ,
Limitation Periods ,
Misrepresentation ,
Morgan Stanley ,
NFL ,
Quicken Loans ,
Race Discrimination ,
Scienter ,
SCOTUS ,
Settlement ,
SLUSA ,
Statistical Sampling ,
Sustainability ,
Texas Dept of Housing v Inclusive Communities ,
Tyson Foods v Bouaphakeo ,
Uber ,
Unilever ,
Unpaid Interns ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wells Fargo ,
Yahoo!