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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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The Supreme Court Punts Uninjured Class Question: Analyzing ‘Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Davis’

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On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court dismissed the petition in Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Davis on procedural grounds as having been “improvidently granted” and declined to address the underlying merits question...more

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False Start: U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Decide Whether Courts May Certify Damages Classes That Include Uninjured Class Members

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On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court changed course and dismissed the writ of certiorari that it previously had granted in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, No. 24-304 (U.S. June 5, 2025). In doing so,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

In Labcorp v. Davis, Supreme Court Passes on Chance to Clarify Issue of Uninjured Class Members

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The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to resolve a potentially landmark issue in class action law. In the closely watched case of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, the Court delivered a per curiam...more

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En Banc 9th Circuit Puts Packaged Tuna Antitrust Classes Back in the Case, Dissent Warns of a “Tidal Wave Of Monstrously Oversized...

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On April 8, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, re-certified three classes of packaged tuna buyers, rejecting a Ninth Circuit panel-majority’s per se rule regarding a de minimis number of...more

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9th Circuit Filets Tuna Classes, Holding That District Courts Must Evaluate the Degree of Uninjured Class Members Prior to...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently weighed in on the effect of uninjured class members on class certification—decertifying three classes in Olean Wholesale Grocery Coop. v. Bee Foods LLC. Olean concerned...more

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Relief For The Unharmed: Supreme Court Considers Whether Article III & Rule 23 Permit Certification Where Most Class Members Are...

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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to resolve a question that has sharply divided the Circuits: whether a class may be certified even though it contains uninjured members. See e.g., Tyson Foods, Inc. v....more

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