On April 8, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, re-certified three classes of packaged tuna buyers, rejecting a Ninth Circuit panel-majority’s per se rule regarding a de minimis number of...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently weighed in on the effect of uninjured class members on class certification—decertifying three classes in Olean Wholesale Grocery Coop. v. Bee Foods LLC. Olean concerned...more
On July 8, 2020, Judge Alison Burroughs granted-in-part Defendants Shire and Actavis’s motion to decertify a direct purchaser plaintiff class in an alleged reverse payment antitrust case pending in the Federal District Court...more
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Chapter 11 ,
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Commercial Bankruptcy ,
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