Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – The annuity regulatory landscape
Mass arbitration is posing significant challenges for businesses, as it creates a new battleground in dispute resolution with the potential to overwhelm companies with a flood of simultaneous claims. Consumer-facing companies...more
On September 25, 2023, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued its first set of amendments as part of a multi-year project to update and modernize its rules. Generally, the amendments made stylistic changes that are consistent...more
Robinson v. Southern Counties Oil Co, 53 Cal. App. 5th 476 (2020) - Summary: Res judicata bars a PAGA claim when the employer has already settled a separate PAGA claim covering the same claims and time period. An...more
As a result of recent amendments to the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act (“WVCCPA”), consumers in West Virginia have begun using the West Virginia Collection Agency Act (“WVCAA”) as a basis to file class...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine five amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act, the EU Court of Justice's rulings on the "Right to Be Forgotten" and what qualifies as a joint...more
Until recently, legal principles surrounding unfairness, deception, and abusiveness have been defined primarily at the federal level, yet with perceived federal retrenchment from consumer protection, states have increasingly...more
New Rules Governing Expanded Class Action Lawsuits in Italy to Take Effect on April 19, 2020 - The old thinking that class actions are only a threat in the US is history. The latest European example is Italy, where on...more
The Situation: Under the Class Action Fairness Act, the Department of Justice may object to federal class action settlements it believes are unfair or inequitable to unnamed class members. The Result: In the past year,...more
The Situation: Recently amended Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(e)(2) requires courts to analyze several factors in evaluating whether to approve class settlements. The Result: Class action settlements that would...more
The United States Supreme Court recently approved and adopted amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 concerning class action practice as proposed by the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. The amended rule went into...more
The December 2018 revisions to Rule 23 are relatively minor, and early cases applying the amended rule confirm that no major changes have occurred. The Southern District of Iowa summed up the theme in Swinton v. SquareTrade,...more
Effective December 1 of this year, Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – governing class action lawsuits – was amended. Among other things, the amendments modernize the rule with respect to electronic...more
On December 1, 2018, four amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became effective. The amendments to Rules 23, 5, 62, and 65.1 by no means constitute earth-shattering changes to existing procedures....more
The Bad Reyes saga just keeps on getting worse for TCPA defendants. In a decision entered today, the Court has found that the Defendant waived its one-way intervention protections by doing nothing more than failing to...more
In this month's Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine recent trends and court decisions, including a new law in Ohio that provides a safe harbor from tort-based data breach claims if the company adopts certain security...more
The final amendments to the Federal Civil Rules of Procedure, including amendments to Rule 23 class actions, are waiting for approval from Congress. The primary changes to Rule 23 affect the class action notice and settlement...more
The amendment of Wis. Stat. section 803.08, which takes effect July 1, 2018, modernizes and brings needed clarity to class action practice in Wisconsin state courts. Precedent from the federal courts should help guide...more
In 2017, the New York Commercial Division continued to implement new rules and refine existing rules in order to streamline litigation in the court. The year also saw some key decisions by the Commercial Division as well as...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth Shaw submitted comments and oral testimony to the Federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules regarding needed reform and guidance to Rule 23, the rule that governs class action litigation in federal...more