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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Class Action Decisions Published November 2024 - Developments in Class Action Law

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A highlight from this issue includes: Unique Defenses Specific to the Named Plaintiff....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

First Circuit Rejects Classwide Settlement, Finds That Would-Be Class Representatives Could Not Adequately Represent Subclasses...

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The First Circuit recently reversed the District of Massachusetts’s approval of a settlement award that improperly lacked any subclasses within the 4.8-million-person putative class, finding it “too difficult to determine...more

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Chipotle’s Employees Denied Class Certification On Employment Discrimination Claims

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 15, 2020, in Guzman v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., No. 17-CV-02606-HSG, 2020 WL 227567 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 15, 2020), Judge Haywood Gilliam of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...more

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Ruling Denying TCPA Class Certification Highlights What’s Wrong with the System

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One of the biggest problems with the TCPA is how quickly a single call or text message can become the catalyst of a massive, and expensive nationwide class action creating significant exposure to any business caught in its...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

A Film-Worthy Lesson on Class Certification

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A class must satisfy the following prerequisites in order to be certified to proceed in the form of a class action: numerosity, commonality, typicality, adequacy and it must be demonstrated that a class action is superior to...more

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Fourth Circuit Certifies “Unicorn” Defendant Class

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In Bell v. Brockett, the Fourth Circuit affirmed the certification of a class of defendants, a rare procedural maneuver that the court referred to as a “unicorn.” ...more

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The Class Action Chronicle - Midyear Update 2018

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This edition focuses on rulings issued between February 16, 2018, and June 15, 2018. In this issue, we cover three decisions granting motions to strike/dismiss class claims, five decisions denying such motions, 27 decisions...more

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