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Article III and Rule 23: Fourth Circuit Holds That Individualized Article III Issues Preclude Class Certification

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For many causes of action, a plaintiff is required to establish an actual “injury” caused by the alleged violation of law. That requirement can be a powerful barrier to class certification if individualized factual inquiries...more

Fishman Haygood LLP

U.S. Sixth Circuit Panel’s Rejection of GM’s Article III Standing and Predominance Challenges to Class Certification is Now Set...

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An August 2024 decision by a panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit in Speerly v. General Motors, which underscores key developments in the law governing class certification, Article III standing, and the treatment of manifest...more

The Wagner Law Group

Update – Recent Developments in Forfeiture Cases

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The Wagner Law Group continues to monitor the recent flood of retirement plan “forfeiture” litigation. This alert is our eighth update reporting on and analyzing the nature of the claims raised by plaintiffs, the defenses...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Unwrapping 2024’s Key Trends in Data Privacy Litigation

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Data breaches made headlines throughout 2024, affecting governments, health care groups, and telecoms. Follow-on litigation has kept pace. Nearly 4,000 class actions involving data privacy issues are estimated to be filed in...more

Venable LLP

Supreme Court Passes on IT v. Zebra: What is Next for Standing in Patent Cases

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The Supreme Court recently declined to hear an appeal from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressing standing requirements for asserting a patent infringement action. In June, the Federal Circuit reversed a...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Tennessee Supreme Court Clarifies Standing Law and Eliminates Wrongful Foreclosure as a Cause of Action in a Big Win for Mortgage...

Bradley scored a significant victory in the Tennessee Supreme Court on November 14, 2024. In a long-awaited decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court clarified a long-standing inconsistency in Tennessee law with its opinion in...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

Tips for Loan Servicers on Defending Consumer Claims in Federal Court and Making Successful Article III Standing Challenges

Loan servicers and their counsel are often sued by consumers during contested mortgage foreclosure proceedings. The United States Supreme Court’s opinions in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins and TransUnion v. Ramirez continue to be an...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Litigation Byte (October Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business. 4th Circuit Holds Rental Applicant Lacks Standing...more

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No Standing for FDCPA Claims Due to Lack of Injury: Eighth Circuit Vacates Judgment and Orders Dismissal

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a District Court’s decision granting summary judgment and remanded with instructions to dismiss the case due to lack of standing to assert a claim under the...more

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4th Circuit Holds Rental Applicant Lacks Standing to Bring FCRA Claims Over Inaccurate OFAC Reporting

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On September 11, 2024, the 4th Circuit held that a named plaintiff in a putative class action failed to establish a concrete injury that could satisfy the injury-in-fact requirement for Article III standing against consumer...more

Erise IP

Eye on IPRs, September 2024: PTAB Issues Fintiv Denial on Wireless Carriers’ IPR, Federal Circuit Denies Standing for IPR Appeal

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: PTAB Issues Fintiv Denial, Leaving Wireless Carrier Patent to E.D. Texas - ...more

Jones Day

Lack of Injury In Fact Scuttles Appeal

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The Federal Circuit dismissed Platinum Optics Technology Inc.’s (PTOT) appeal from an IPR decision, finding the challenged claims of Viavi’s U.S. Patent No. 9,354,369 not unpatentable, because PTOT failed to establish an...more

Freiberger Haber LLP

Questions of Fact Exist as to Plaintiff’s Standing to Commence Action Where Form of Company Changed From Corporation to LLC

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This BLOG has frequently addressed issues related to a party’s standing, in many different contexts, to commence litigation. In prior BLOG articles we have explained that in order to prosecute a lawsuit, the plaintiff must...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Blurred Vision: Appeal Dismissed for Lack of Standing

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed a patent challenger’s appeal in an inter partes review (IPR) because the challenger could not meet the injury-in-fact requirement for Article III standing. Platinum...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

D.C. Circuit Dismisses Appeal of Class Certification Denial Due to Lack of Standing

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently dismissed an appeal in the case of Lewis v. Becerra, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The appellants sought...more

Cohen & Gresser LLP

Second Circuit Says that Insiders Are Still ‘Standing’ to Enforce Short-Swing Trading Under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act

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On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided Packer ex rel. 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. v. Raging Capital Management, LLC, reversing a district court decision that had held that a shareholder...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

What U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Standing Tells Us About Challenges to Corporate DEI Initiatives

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The U.S. Supreme Court held that a group of doctors, nurses, and medical associations did not have the right under the U.S. Constitution, a doctrine known as “standing,” to challenge Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...more

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Missouri Federal Court Dismisses FDCPA Claim Over Letters Sent to Plaintiffs’ Attorney

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A U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri recently dismissed a lawsuit under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), finding that two letters sent to the plaintiffs’ attorney did not constitute...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Federal Circuit Wades Into Article III Standing in Patent Cases Once Again

In the precedential decision of Intellectual Tech LLC v. Zebra Techs. Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that dismissed a...more

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Eleventh Circuit Temporarily Blocks Fearless Fund Grant Program For Black Women-Owned Businesses

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On June 3, 2024, the Eleventh Circuit authorized a preliminary injunction in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Management, LLC et al., ruling that a grant contest that awards funding and mentorship...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Review | May 2024

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Infringement Judgement is Only Final when there’s Nothing Left to Do but Execute - In Packet Intelligence LLC v. Netscout Systems, Inc., Appeal No. 22-2064, the Federal Circuit held that an infringement judgment is only...more

Robinson+Cole Class Actions Insider

New Texas Supreme Court Decision Highlights Several Defense Strategies for Defeating Class Certification

A recent Texas Supreme Court decision in a class action caught my eye because it addressed several significant class certification issues, including one that I’ve seen regularly and another that the court analyzed in a new...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Third Circuit Holds “Confusion, Without More” Is Not Enough to Confer Standing Under the FDCPA

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has recently underscored the fact that a plaintiff does not automatically gain Article III standing under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) simply because they are...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Class Action Decisions Published March 2024 - Developments in Class Action Law

Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) Jurisdiction. The Fifth Circuit held as a matter of first impression that the term “principal injuries” in the CAFA’s local controversy exception “qualitatively and comparatively evaluates the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

3rd Circuit finds appellant does not have FDCPA standing where only injury was confusion

On April 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that an appellant who sued a debt collector for allegedly violating the FDCPA did not have standing to bring her claim because she “failed to plead a concrete...more

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