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Spring Cleaning Your Dispute Resolution Terms and Conditions: Tips for Avoiding Mass Arbitrations

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Mandatory arbitration provisions, combined with class action waivers, are a common element of consumer-facing terms and conditions. Unfortunately, in recent years, plaintiffs’ counsel have moved from fighting these provisions...more

Hogan Lovells

UK Competition Litigation Quarterly Update: Q1 2025

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It’s been a busy start to 2025 at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, with several key cases and procedural updates shaping the landscape of UK competition litigation. In this edition of UK Competition Litigation Quarterly, our...more

DLA Piper

Global Trends in Product Liability and Class Action Litigation

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Industry and sector developments, risks, and tips to consider in 2025 - Multiple industries are facing common challenges in the product liability and class action space. These may include (1) discovery obligations leading to...more

Alston & Bird

Class Action & MDL Roundup 2024 Q4 – We Give You the Benefit of the Bargain

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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

Hissey, Mulderig & Friend, PLLC

Depo-Provera Litigation Update: Women With Meningioma Brain Tumors Eligible for Compensation

A March 2024 study published by The BMJ revealed that women who were injected with Depo-Provera (medroxyprogesterone acetate) are more than five times more likely to be diagnosed with a type of brain tumor known as...more

Snell & Wilmer

House Settlement

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One of the most significant legal battles in collegiate athletics recently received another boost. On October 7, 2024, the proposed House v. NCAA settlement received preliminary approval from Judge Claudia Wilken in the...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Securities Motion to Dismiss Trends (Part 3): The Central District of California

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In this last article in his three-part series, my partner and securities litigator Walker Newell looked at motion to dismiss trends in the Central District of California, which covers Los Angeles and Orange County. The CD...more

Dechert LLP

A Class Act: Is England a New Battleground in High-Value Multi-Claimant Actions?

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Since 2022, multi-claimant litigation in England has significantly increased, particularly Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”) filings and Group Litigation Orders (“GLOs”). Multi-billion-dollar cases are increasingly being...more

Dechert LLP

Representative Claims: A Game of Two Halves?

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While the English courts have increasingly encouraged collective actions through mechanisms like group litigation orders (GLOs) and competition law collective actions before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT),...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Websites Under Attack — Defenses to ADA Claims for Retailers and Online Businesses - The Katten Kattwalk/Kattison Avenue | Issue 4

Retailers and other businesses with an online presence continue to be targets of lawsuits filed by plaintiffs asserting claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related state laws. In a nutshell, these suits...more

Jones Day

Diocese of Rockville Centre Pioneers a Global Resolution for Itself, Its 136 Parishes, and its Settling Insurers Post-Purdue

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In order to resolve hundreds of Child Victims Act lawsuits alleging sexual abuse, the Diocese of Rockville Centre commenced chapter 11 to seek protection for itself, its parishes, and schools, as well as providing equitable...more

JAMS

Navigating the Grey Areas of Neutrality in Reverse Auctions

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Given the number of class actions and other representative matters filed across the country, a phenomenon known as the reverse auction has increasingly evolved over the past decade, which affects both the process by which...more

Dechert LLP

Securities and Derivative Litigation: Quarter 4 Update

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In 2022, there were 197 federal securities class actions filed, which is a 6.6% drop from the 211 filings in 2021, and a significant drop from the over 400 filings in 2017, 2018, and 2019, and over 300 in 2020. Despite a...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

New York’s Highest Court: Pre-Certification Settlements Require Classwide Notice

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The New York Court of Appeals holds that the state’s class action rules require notice of settlements to be sent to putative class members – even though no class has been certified....more

Carlton Fields

The 2017 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey

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The 2017 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey has just been released, and the findings reveal some unexpected trends in class action litigation, based on insights provided by 387 general counsels and chief legal officers at...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Dutch Collective Actions vs. Collective Settlements

As U.S. law has become less willing to entertain certain types of lawsuits on behalf of worldwide classes of plaintiffs, litigants have looked for other forums that might allow the prosecution – or at least the resolution –...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Class Action Settlements: Deciding Whether to Embark on the Long and Winding Road

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We all know the story: most class actions settle. Of course, some do not, especially where the court denies class certification or grants defendant’s dispositive motion. But as between settlement and trial, settlement is by...more

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To Settle Or Not To Settle: Eight Questions Corporate Counsel Should Ask In Evaluating Class Action Settlements

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To settle or not to settle; that is the question, right? It is asked when you receive the demand letter threatening a class action, when the complaint is filed and served, at the initial scheduling conference, before the...more

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