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Recent Trends in Federal Class Certification Standards
I’m embarrassingly late in reporting on them, but I would be remiss if I did not mention two key recent United States Circuit Courts of Appeals decisions addressing the legal standards governing class...
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Tolling the Summer Away
Editor’s note: The following entry comes from my colleague, Raj Chohan, who has agreed to become a regular contributor to ClassActionBlawg.com. Raj joined Baker Hostetler this fall after graduating...
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Supreme Court Set to Hear Oral Argument in Smith v. Bayer on January 18
In my 2010 wrap up posted last week, I neglected to mention one of the three class action-related cases in which the United States Supreme Court granted cert in 2010. Smith v. Bayer is an appeal of a...
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Supreme Court Adds a Fourth Class Action Case to its Docket
Instead of a trilogy of class action decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, it looks like there will be a “quadrilogy“! For the fourth time in the October 2010 Term, the Court has granted...
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Is Smith v. Bayer a Case About Class Action Abuse or Abuse of Federal Power?
Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court held oral argument in Smith v. Bayer, which raises the question of a federal court’s power to enjoin a state court from considering class certification after the...
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BH Executive Alert: Seventh Circuit Issues Significant Decision on Consumer...
The Baker Hostetler website has a new Executive Alert discussing the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Kartman v. State Farm Mut. Automobile Ins. Co., Case no. 09-1725, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS...
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Don’t Miss the Annual Federal Practice Update, this Friday at the CBA
I will be speaking on trends in e-discovery at the upcoming Federal Practice Update 2011, co-sponsored by the Federal Bar Association and the CBA Litigation Section. I hope to be an adequate fill-in...
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Thoughts on Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
Many commentators correctly that the decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes would be favorable to business interests. However, unlike the Court’s earlier decision in AT&T Mobility v....
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Forget Dukes and Concepcion, Shady Grove Is Where It’s At
After the all the activity in the Supreme Court during the October 2010 term, why would anyone want to talk about a decision from the October 2009 term? Isn’t that kind of like showing off your new...
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Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog – Much More than Quality...
The Baker Hostetler Employment Class Action Blog is constantly putting out quality content, but they have two new recent posts that I would especially recommend to my readers. They include: This...
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Why Whirlpool’s Class Action Trial Victory May Be Bad News for Class Action...
Whirlpool Corporation made headlines yesterday when a Ohio federal court jury issued a verdict finding that the manufacturer’s washers did not have a defect that caused them to develop mold. The...
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Big Changes to Rule 23 in 2018? Be Sure to Weigh In Now.
I was privileged to be invited to participate in a recent mini-conference with the Rule 23 Subcommittee to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, the committee that evaluates and proposed changes to...
View ArticleRegister Now for the Sixth Annual ABA Regional Program on Class Actions and...
I’m very pleased to be chairing the ABA Section of Litigation’s Sixth Annual Regional CLE Program on Class Actions and Mass Torts this year. The program will be held at the offices of the Bar...
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