In the age of e-commerce, many consumer class actions involve goods and services purchased online. Those online purchases have created legal challenges for determining when an online sale may subject a party to personal...more
1/24/2025
/ California ,
Class Action ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Litigation ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Data Privacy ,
E-Commerce ,
Goods or Services ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Privacy Laws ,
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New York’s two principal consumer fraud statutes, N.Y. G.B.L. §§ 349 and 350, authorize statutory damages of $50 or $500 per violation respectively...more
In April 2021, the Ninth Circuit issued its panel opinion in Wholesale Grocery Cooperative v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC, which held that the district court erred in certifying several classes of tuna purchasers in an antitrust...more
4/20/2022
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Bumble Bee Foods ,
Class Certification ,
Class Members ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Damages ,
En Banc Review ,
FRCP 23(b)(3) ,
Price-Fixing ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Retail Market
In recent years, conjoint analysis has proliferated as a methodology for calculating class-wide damages in consumer class actions. While conjoint analysis first emerged as a marketing tool for measuring consumers’ relative...more