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Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: Honorarium Payments to Representative Plaintiffs in Class Proceedings

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In Makris v Endo International PLC, 2020 ONSC 5709 [Makris], Justice Glustein of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice opined on a niche area of class actions law—honorarium payments for representative plaintiffs. The claim...more

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"Inside the Courts: An Update from Skadden Securities Litigators - February 2017 / Volume 9 / Issue 1"

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We are pleased to present Inside the Courts (Volume 9, Issue 1), Skadden’s securities litigation newsletter. This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between...more

Carlton Fields

Third Circuit Rejects Inflated-Value Theory of Damages, Declines to Certify Law School Tuition Class

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The Third Circuit recently affirmed the denial of class certification in a suit alleging that a law school made misrepresentations about the employment status of its graduates, thereby inducing students to pay inflated...more

Genova Burns LLC

Third Circuit Rejects Class Certification for Widener Law Grads

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A panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals refused to allow class certification for a group of Widener University School of Law Graduates who allege that the law school inflated postgraduate employment rate statistics in...more

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App Developer Prevails in Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Shift to New Business Model

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If you make available a service through a free app, and you subsequently decide to migrate users of that app to a paid subscription model, that shouldn’t create any problems, right?...more

Morris James LLP

Court Upholds but Limits Claims Arising From Merger Agreement

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The Delaware courts regularly address contract claims arising out of merger agreements. Among other recurring issues are whether and how the parties limited claims based on alleged misrepresentations or omissions, whether a...more

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Looking Forward: Canadian Class Actions in 2016

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Looking Forward - The last few years have been active for class actions in Canada, and the activity did not slow down in 2015. This past year, Bennett Jones was involved with some of the most important class...more

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Illinois Appellate Court Reinforces Rule Providing Immunity to Attorneys for Errors in Judgment

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Judgmental immunity is alive and well in Illinois. Navar v. Tribler, Orpett & Meyer, P.C., 2015 WL 6163619 (Ill. App. Ct. Oct. 19, 2015). A recent Illinois appellate court decision held that a rule affording...more

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Carta de Error! Copyright Takedown Notice To iTunes May Give Rise to Misrepresentation Liability

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Section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes parties who issue copyright takedown notices liable for any “knowing” misrepresentations in those notices. However, the Ninth Circuit in Rossi v. Motion Picture...more

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