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
Where the (Class) Action Is -
Moving into the second half of 2015, there is no shortage of interesting cases across the spectrum of class action issues and claims. In this edition of the Round-Up, courts continue to...more
1/6/2016
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Ascertainable Class ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Consumer Fraud ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Product Defects ,
RICO ,
Securities Litigation ,
Settlement ,
Wage and Hour ,
Young Lawyers
For years now, the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) has been a looming threat to U.S. businesses. Although the TCPA was initially passed “to develop the necessary ground rules for cost-effective protection of...more
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!
This week, the FCC issued the following correction of its July 10, 2015 Order on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”):
In Paragraph 100, the fourth sentence is corrected to read as follows: “It follows that the...more