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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Disappointments and Silver Linings in North Carolina Class-Action Law

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Life has its disappointments. Sometimes, you think you’ve won a free car, but it turns out that you’ve won only a couple of dollars. And sometimes, you think that an appellate court will clarify a thorny issue of class-action...more

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Fourth Circuit Holds Faxes Received Online Not Subject to TCPA

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A fax is a fax is a fax… or is it? In a recent ruling in the long-running TCPA junk fax case Career Counseling, Inc. v. AmeriFactors Financial Group, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the statute’s prohibition...more

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New Jersey Appellate Division Affirms Dismissal of Consumer Fraud Class Action Against Debt Collector under the New Jersey...

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The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division in Jennifer Woo-Padva v. Midland Funding, LLC, recently affirmed the dismissal of consumer fraud claims brought against a debt collector pursuant to the New Jersey Consumer...more

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The Class Action Chronicle - August 2023

Post-TransUnion, A Closer Examination of Threshold for Article III Standing- Class action trials are rare. The potential magnitude of an adverse verdict, even when improbable, makes the risks of trial unpalatable for...more

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Recent developments in ascertainability, uninjured class members, and other class action issues in the second quarter of 2023

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Several appellate decisions addressed the “implicit” class action requirement of ascertainability during the second quarter of 2023, with the Third, Tenth and D.C. Circuits weighing in. Meanwhile, the Fifth Circuit maintained...more

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Class Action Decisions Published May 2023

Ascertainability. The Tenth Circuit affirmed it treated ascertainability as a sub-requirement of numerosity, not a standalone criteria. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the denial of certification of a class of college students who...more

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Fifth Circuit Reverses ADA Class Certification Because the Class is Not Ascertainable

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On January 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed the district court’s decision to certify a class under Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”), which prohibits public entities...more

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Kelly v. RealPage Inc.: The Third Circuit Lowers the “Heightened Standard” for Ascertainability

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Rule 23 does not explicitly require that a court be able to determine who the members are before certifying a class. But judges have found implicit in the Rule a requirement that membership in a defined class be...more

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Class Action Decisions Published December 2022

Highlights from this issue include: Affirmative Defenses. The Second Circuit held the district court erred in certifying a class alleging ERISA violations because it did not consider Defendant’s affirmative defenses in...more

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Court Denies Class Certification in Illinois Oil Spill Case

On October 5, 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois denied the plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification in Morr v. Plains All American Pipeline, LLC 2021 WL 4478660 (S.D. Illinois,...more

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COVID-19: Court Denies Motion for Class Certification in Ticket Refund Case

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A federal district court in Florida denied a plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a putative class action asserting claims on behalf of ticket purchasers against Viagogo, a secondary ticket marketplace platform, for...more

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Circuit Split on Class Feasibility Offers Defense Opportunities

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Defense counsel tend to see individualized issues of fact and law when litigating a class action. Plaintiffs counsel, on the other hand, will often look at those same issues and suggest that they apply uniformly across the...more

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[Webinar] Staying ahead of the class: Emerging global issues in antitrust class actions - June 10th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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Join the Hogan Lovells Antitrust and Competition team on Thursday, June 10, 2021 where we will discuss current issues in antitrust class actions in both the U.S. and EU/U.K., including: - Current case developments related...more

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Circuit Split Deepens as Eleventh Circuit Holds Administrative Feasibility is Not a Requirement for Class Certification

On February 2, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court’s denial of class certification for failure to prove an administratively feasible method to identify absent class members. The Eleventh Circuit’s rejection...more

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The Class Action Chronicle

Eleventh Circuit Rejects Administrative Feasibility Requirement: What Does the Future Hold for Ascertainability? As we discussed in our Spring 2017 issue of The Class Action Chronicle, courts have struggled to define the...more

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MDL Court Denies Class Certification of Proposed “NAS Babies” Class

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The opioid MDL court (the Northern District of Ohio) recently denied class certification to plaintiffs seeking class certification as guardians of individual children diagnosed at birth with neonatal abstinence syndrome...more

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Ascertainability - Eleventh Circuit holds administrative feasibility is not a class certification

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Takeaway: Administrative feasibility is not a prerequisite for class certification in the Eleventh Circuit, although it remains a relevant consideration under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3)’s manageability factor....more

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Administrative Feasibility as a Requirement for Class Actions

Can a plaintiff represent a class without showing that there’s a feasible way to identify the absent class members? In its recent decision in Cherry v. Dometic Corp., the Eleventh Circuit has become the latest circuit to...more

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Administrative Feasibility as a Prerequisite to Class Certification

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Ascertainability is an implied prerequisite of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, which governs class actions. Class representatives bear the burden of establishing that their proposed class is “adequately defined and...more

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Administrative Feasibility as a Prerequisite for Class Certification

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The Eleventh Circuit has joined the Second, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits in rejecting administrative feasibility as a prerequisite for class certification. The decision reverses unpublished Eleventh Circuit...more

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Another Circuit Split: Eleventh Circuit Holds that Administrative Feasibility is a Factor for Courts to Consider on Class...

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In Cherry v. Dometic Corp., the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that, when addressing a motion for class certification, courts may consider whether the named plaintiff has demonstrated an administratively feasible...more

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Eleventh Circuit Reverses Course on Ascertainability Standard in Class Actions; Turns Tide in Plaintiffs’ Favor

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This Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed course on an emerging trend of case law concerning the ascertainability standard for class actions under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23, holding proof of...more

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Eleventh Circuit Deepens Circuit Split on Administrative Feasibility

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Earlier this week, the Eleventh Circuit joined the Second, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits in rejecting administrative feasibility as a prerequisite to certification under Rule 23, deepening a split with the First, Third,...more

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District Court Grants Plaintiff’s Motion to Certify Class in Part, Refusing to Credit Testimony Regarding Unwritten Consent...

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In Vandenberg & Sons Furniture, Inc. v. Alliance Funding Grp., Judge Quist of the District Court for the Western District of Michigan granted in part and denied in part the plaintiff’s motion for class certification arising...more

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Santa’s List of Names Does Not Define a Class

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For more than a decade, United States District Courts have taken a stark approach to the need for appropriate class definitions and ascertainability in federal class actions. Mueller v. CBS, Inc., 200 F.R.D. 227, 233 (W.D....more

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