In January, Ford County, Kansas joined a class action complaint filed in Missouri against eleven plastics manufacturers, seeking to represent “all persons or entities” in 35 states who purchased relevant plastics since 1990....more
On September 30, 2021, the California Court of Appeal (Second District) issued its decision in Turrieta v. Lyft, Inc., Case No. B304701, which limits the ability of nonparty “aggrieved employees” to challenge a Private...more
Third Circuit Holds False Claims Act Relator Lacks Standing and Right to Intervene in Related Criminal Case - In a matter of first impression, the Third Circuit held last week that a relator who filed an action under the...more
The Sixth Circuit recently held that Arizona lacked standing to intervene in, and object to, a nationwide class settlement at the settlement fairness hearing. The underlying case involved Tristar Products’ defective pressure...more
The United States District Court of the District of Connecticut will soon decide whether a putative class member may intervene “for the limited purpose of tolling the statute of repose.” Statutes of repose place an outer...more
On September 19, 2018, the Georgia based Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (the “Fellowship”) filed a motion to intervene as a defendant in a case filed by the Community Financial Services Association of America Ltd. and the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Harrington v. Sessions, No. 15-8009, No. 16-5285 & No. 16-5286 (D.C. Cir. July 21, 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that absent class members may intervene in an appellate...more
PHH has filed a response in opposition to the motion filed with the D.C. Circuit by Democratic lawmakers Senator Sherrod Brown and Representative Maxine Waters to intervene in the PHH appeal. The lawmakers are, respectively,...more
REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - - Foreclosure/Standing: owner, who took title to property after lis pendens was recorded and who did not appeal denial of motion to intervene, did not have standing to appeal judgment of...more
REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Standing: party whose motion to intervene in foreclosure action was denied did not have standing to appeal final judgment of foreclosure – Market Tampa Investments, LLC. V Stobaugh,...more