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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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Class Actions: Looking Forward 2024

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In our 2024 edition of Looking Forward, we review notable class action developments from the past year and consider what recent trends in the law might tell us about what to expect in the years ahead....more

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Competition Class Actions—The Year in Review

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For many years, defendants resisted certification of competition class actions primarily by arguing that determining harm to class members defied calculation—or, at least, defied those methods the plaintiffs typically...more

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Fifth Circuit Parses Crucial Distinction Between Class Liability Theories and Class Damages Theories

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A recent opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit illustrates the importance of carefully scrutinizing classwide liability theories, even where district courts have flexibility assessing classwide...more

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Liability vs. Damages in Class Certification Analysis Addressed by Fifth Circuit

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In analyzing class certification issues, courts have said that common issues may predominate in some cases even though damages would have to be determined individually for each class member. But what about where some class...more

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Northern District of California Decertifies Class Under Comcast Due to Inadequacy of Damages Model

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In Freitas v. Cricket Wireless, LLC, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California recently decertified a class because of a “critical” mistake in Plaintiff’s damages model that rendered it...more

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Sixth Circuit Grants Interlocutory Review of Massive PFAS Class Certification

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Recently, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted interlocutory review of an enormous class action that could significantly impact the future of PFAS litigation. ...more

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Ninth Circuit Reverses Class Certification Order Because Liability Issues, Not Merely Damages, Were Individualized

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The Ninth Circuit recently addressed an issue that tends to arise frequently in class certification motion practice: how trial courts should apply the predominance requirement where appellate decisions have said that the need...more

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Federal Court Certifies Class in Multiple-Plan ERISA Challenge to Health-Plan and Retirement-Plan Fees

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A Texas federal court certified a class in an ERISA action brought by participants in one plan, but alleging class claims on behalf of participants in many different plans sponsored by different, unaffiliated employers. See...more

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