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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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Auto Dealers Face Deadline to Submit Claims in $129.5 Million Class Action Settlement

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U.S. auto dealers have until Jan. 9, 2025 to submit a claim in the recent $129.5 million class action lawsuit settled by CDK Global, LLC (CDK) and The Reynolds and Reynolds Company (Reynolds). The deadline to object to the...more

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Rising Fraudulent Claims Submitted to Class Action Settlement Funds Heighten Settlement Risk

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Consumers frequently receive only a paltry fraction of class action settlement funds, which are instead doled out to plaintiffs’ lawyers, cy pres recipients, and administrators. Now this problem is compounded by a recent...more

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Second Circuit: presumption of fairness no longer applies to class settlements negotiated at arm’s length

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Takeaway:  When evaluating the fairness of a proposed class settlement, Federal Rule 23(e)(2) requires a district court to take into account, among other considerations, the terms of any proposed award of attorneys’ fees and...more

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Chancery Orders Discovery Record Be Made Available to Stockholders in the Settlement Class

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In re AMC Entertainment Hldgs., Inc. S’holder Litig., 2023-0215-MTZ (Del. Ch. May 20, 2023) - Under Delaware law, class members are entitled to access to the discovery record to assess the terms of a proposed class action...more

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Eleventh Circuit strikes again, vacating class settlement for lack of standing

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Takeaway: We have written about Eleventh Circuit decisions on Article III standing and its relationship to the proper approval of a class action settlement. See Eleventh Circuit holds that every class member must have...more

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New England and First Circuit Class Action Tracker

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Updated March 21, 2025 to include all of 2024 data and trends. Pierce Atwood's Class Action Defense group is pleased to present this New England and First Circuit Class Action Tracker, which focuses on the filings and...more

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District of Maine Applies the First Circuit’s Murray Decision to Approve Class Action Settlement

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In early 2023, the District of Maine was the first district court to apply and interpret a recent and notable First Circuit ruling that should be top-of-mind for class action attorneys and litigants seeking approval of...more

Carlton Fields

Carlton Fields Class Action Survey - 2023

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Carlton Fields is pleased to share its 12th annual Class Action Survey, which provides an overview of important issues and practices related to class action matters and management. This annual publication reports on...more

McDermott Will & Emery

A Practical Guide to the Undistributed Settlement Funds Problem and the Cy Pres Solution

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When you finally reach an agreement to settle a hotly contested class action, you want more than anything for the court to approve your settlement agreement and for the case to be over. But, to get to the end of the case,...more

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First Circuit Rejects Class Action Settlement Based on Potential Intra-class Conflict, But Approves Named Plaintiff Incentive...

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When negotiating a class action settlement, lawyers on both sides may need to consider whether subgroups within the class need to be separately represented by different counsel. The First Circuit recently reached that...more

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Ninth Circuit Renders Section 1712 of CAFA Inapplicable to a Class Action Settlement

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On November 30, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s finding that a settlement was not a coupon settlement when applying the three factors outlined in In re Online DVD-Rental...more

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Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Agree: Class Members With No Injury = No Class Settlement Approval

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Recently, the Ninth Circuit joined its sister circuit, the Eleventh, in vacating class settlements on standing grounds. In Harvey v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, the court vacated the district court’s approval of the...more

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The Seventh Circuit Clears a Roadblock to Settlement

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As I have discussed in earlier posts, there are multiple stakeholders to class action settlements, including named plaintiffs, absent class members, class counsel, defendants, and the courts. Conflicts can arise within some...more

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Member obligations for participation in the NCAA concussion injury class action settlement release

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In 2011, a former Eastern Illinois University football player named Adrian Arrington filed a putative class-action lawsuit against the NCAA for its handling of student-athlete concussions and concussion-related risks....more

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