Seyfarth Synopsis: In Savage, et al. v. The City of Springfield, Case No. 3:18-CV-30614, 2022 LEXIS 124587 (D. Mass. July 14, 2022), a federal court in Massachusetts recently denied Plaintiffs’ motion for class...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Handloser v. HCL Technologies LTD, No. 19-CV-1242, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45183 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 9, 2021), Plaintiffs alleged that an Indian-based company with its U.S. headquarters in California gave...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a class action lawsuit alleging multiple fraud claims, a federal court in Illinois granted the plaintiff’s motion to sanction the defendants for interfering with the class notice process by encouraging...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Illinois Supreme Court recently affirmed a state appellate court’s holding that in class action lawsuits, an effective tender made before a named plaintiff files a class certification motion satisfies...more
2/28/2020
/ Attorney's Fees ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Damages ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
IL Supreme Court ,
Mootness ,
Real Estate Market ,
Rental Property ,
Statutory Violations ,
Tender Rules
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Ituah, et al. v. Austin State Hospital, a federal magistrate judge in Texas recently recommended the denial of a motion for class certification brought by patients alleging disability discrimination...more
1/16/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Class Members ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Discovery ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
FRCP 23 ,
FRCP 23(a) ,
FRCP 23(b)(2) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Lost Evidence ,
Numerosity ,
Psychiatric Hospitals ,
Rape ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Rehabilitation Act ,
Section 504 ,
Sexual Assault
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a toxic tort class action stemming from automotive and dry cleaning facilities’ alleged contamination of groundwater near Dayton, Ohio, the Sixth Circuit affirmed an Ohio federal district court’s grant...more
8/21/2018
/ Battery ,
Civil Conspiracy ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Contaminated Properties ,
Contamination ,
En Banc Review ,
Fraudulent Concealment ,
FRCP 23(b)(3) ,
FRCP 23(c)(4) ,
Groundwater ,
Hazardous Substances ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Negligence ,
Negligent Misrepresentation ,
Petition For Rehearing ,
Private Nuisance ,
Strict Liability ,
Trespass ,
Unjust Enrichment
Synopsis: In an ADEA collective action alleging that a community college discriminated on the basis of age when it announced it would no longer employ any person receiving an annuity from the State Universities Retirement...more
3/15/2018
/ ADEA ,
Age Discrimination ,
But For Causation ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Disparate Treatment ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Law Violations ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Summary Judgment ,
Title VII
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a class action lawsuit alleging that Tinder discriminated on the basis of age in violation of California state laws by charging consumers age 30 and over a higher price for Tinder Plus subscriptions, the...more
2/5/2018
/ Age Discrimination ,
Class Certification ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Dating Services ,
Failure To State A Claim ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Popular ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Social Media ,
State and Local Government ,
Subscription Services ,
Tinder ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL) ,
Unruh Civil Rights Act
Seyfarth Synopsis: Four African-American teachers alleged that their school district employer discriminated against them on the basis of race by failing to hire them as assistant principals, and filed a motion for class...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a class action alleging that the criminal background policy of Washington D.C.’s local transit authority had a disparate impact on African-Americans, a federal district court recently certified three...more
4/11/2017
/ Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Discrimination ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
FRCP 23 ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Race Discrimination ,
Transit Authority ,
Transportation Industry
Seyfarth Synopsis: The increasingly common practice of third-party funding of class actions, which provides tax incentives to plaintiffs’ attorneys and third-party funders alike, may no longer be protected under...more
8/10/2016
/ Chevron ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Class Representatives ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Document Productions ,
Explosions ,
Litigation Funding ,
Motion to Compel ,
Nigeria ,
Oil & Gas ,
Tax Incentives ,
Third Party Funding ,
Young Lawyers