Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This year has begun with cases all over the map, from California to Florida to Massachusetts.
The West Coast features overbearing manufacturers, allegedly underpaid lenders,...more
4/5/2019
/ Antitrust Litigation ,
Banking Sector ,
Biometric Information ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Data Collection ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Facebook ,
FDCPA ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Remand
Happy New Year! While we acknowledge that it’s nearly summer now, this issue of Roundup includes case highlights from the first quarter of 2017. The year kicked off with more activity than the last quarter of 2016, with cases...more
6/12/2017
/ ADEA ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Class Action ,
FATCA ,
FDCPA ,
FRCP 23(b)(3) ,
National Bank Act ,
Popular ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
RICO ,
TCPA
Where the (Class) Action Is -
This issue of Roundup wraps up 2015 with another slate of interesting cases spanning industries and subject matter. The running theme of ascertainability is now stretching into antitrust...more
4/20/2016
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Ascertainable Class ,
Banking Sector ,
Chemical Spills ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
FDCPA ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Google ,
Hackers ,
Minimum Wage ,
Pipelines ,
Popular ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
Private Nuisance ,
RICO ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Smart Car ,
Standing ,
TCPA ,
Uber ,
Wage and Hour ,
Yahoo! ,
Young Lawyers
The big news this quarter is the U.S. Supreme Court’s acceptance of Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, an employment case likely to have major ramifications across the whole spectrum of class action litigation. The Court is set...more
9/17/2015
/ Ascertainable Class ,
Bank of America ,
Boeing ,
CAFA ,
Class Action ,
Class Arbitration ,
Class Certification ,
Daubert Hearing ,
Disparate Impact ,
Doffing ,
Donning ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Equifax ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
FDCPA ,
GNC ,
H-2A ,
Kraft ,
Levi Strauss ,
Limitation Periods ,
Misrepresentation ,
Morgan Stanley ,
NFL ,
Quicken Loans ,
Race Discrimination ,
Scienter ,
SCOTUS ,
Settlement ,
SLUSA ,
Statistical Sampling ,
Sustainability ,
Texas Dept of Housing v Inclusive Communities ,
Tyson Foods v Bouaphakeo ,
Uber ,
Unilever ,
Unpaid Interns ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wells Fargo ,
Yahoo!