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Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the fourth quarter of 2025. In this edition, an antitrust suit comes untied, a sweetener case goes sour, and the dark web...more
In Johnson v. Comodo Group, 2026 WL 296417 (D. N.J. Feb. 4, 2026) the court approved a class action settlement agreement whereby Comodo will pay $1,625,000 to settle the case, with average recovery of approximately $596 for...more
A recent Ninth Circuit decision held that both named and unnamed class members in a class seeking monetary damages must come forward with sufficient evidence of Article III standing at the summary judgment stage—not merely at...more
Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the third quarter of 2025. In this edition, mini bottles cause a major buzz, black-box royalties get blurry, and...more
In the November edition of For Your Consumption, our food & beverage digest of court cases and litigation trends affecting the food, beverage, agribusiness, and cosmetics industries, a plaintiff is choking on the splinters,...more
A common TCPA issue when state Mini-TCPA statutes are involved is determining who is subject to the state laws given that cell phone users might use area codes for a state but not live in that state....more
Famous people, whether they’re celebrities or highly placed business executives, can be difficult to pin down for depositions. We’ve written about it before, in the context of the apex deposition doctrine, which shields from...more
Interesting new class action settlement I just picked up. Looks like Western Express was allegedly made a bunch of robocalls to 14,697 wrong numbers. Not good....more
When a class action settlement is objected to and subsequently approved by the court, objectors sometimes appeal, which can substantially delay the settlement process including distribution of settlement funds to class...more
Recently, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted final approval of a class action settlement arising from a data breach that occurred in February 2023. The court found the settlement fair,...more
Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2025. In this edition, the Supreme Court lowers its standards (in ERISA suits), one circuit changes its...more
The Seventh Circuit has joined the Fifth and Sixth Circuits in establishing a higher bar for employees to clear before courts may authorize “notice” to potential members of an FLSA collective action. Although the Seventh...more
Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2025. In this edition, two UK actions fail to clear a low bar, a movie isn’t a video, and spam isn’t...more
AGG Healthcare Litigation attorneys Rich Collins and Landen Benson represent two of the three named plaintiffs in an ERISA class action against UnitedHealthcare (“United”), involving the insurer’s denial of access to proton...more
One of the mandates of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of 2005 was to provide greater visibility into settlements with the goal of generating more transparency on how these settlements affect class members, according to...more
On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, leaving unresolved a significant question regarding class-action certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23. The question...more
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
On June 5, 2025, the US Supreme Court dismissed as improvidently granted a closely watched case that could have clarified whether federal courts may certify damages class actions under Rule 23 when the class includes both...more
Class action notice programs are intended to satisfy Rule 23 due process requirements and ensure that class members receive reasonable notice of settlements. Unfortunately, many notice programs seem designed just to satisfy...more
A highlight from this issue includes Class Definitions....more
Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the fourth quarter of 2024. In this edition, an overdue audiobook suit is shelved, an old case gets new reps and new...more
Takeaway: We have written frequently about the different approaches of the Courts of Appeals when addressing certification of a class that includes uninjured class members. See, e.g., En banc Ninth Circuit reinstates class...more
Plaintiffs’ attorneys are continuing to aggressively pursue mass arbitrations in privacy litigation. The latest challenge came when Judge Beth Labson Freeman in the Northern District of California ruled last month that...more
Highlights from this issue include cases such as Pro Se Civil Rights Class Actions. The Seventh Circuit affirmed that a pro se prisoner cannot adequately represent a class, and more....more
Burkhart v. Genworth Fin., Inc., C.A. No. 2018-0691-NAC (Del. Ch. Aug. 21, 2024). The rise in litigation funding brings a predictable follow-on question: Are litigation funding agreements protected as work product, or...more