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Class Action Pleading Standards Consumer Fraud

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.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

A KIND Result After Insufficient and Biased Consumer Perception Evidence

Consumer perception evidence is necessary for plaintiffs to survive summary judgment in a false advertising class action, but vacillating and flawed connections between the evidence and the key question of what a reasonable...more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

Seventh Circuit Finds No Evidence of Deception in Aloe Vera Gel Labeling Lawsuit

Last month, a Seventh Circuit panel unanimously affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing a consumer class action alleging that Fruit of the Earth and its retailer clients deceptively labeled aloe...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

A Failure of Leakage Linkage: The District of New Jersey Sinks a Proposed Class Action under Tennessee and California Laws over...

A New Jersey federal judge recently applied Tennessee and California law in dismissing a proposed class action concerning allegedly leaky water heater sensors/valves (valves) made by Honeywell International Inc. The decision...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Why Does Class-Action Defense Spending Continue to Rise?

It’s almost inevitable; once a company grows its market to a certain size, its stakeholders are likely to face class-action litigation. Despite a downward trend in class-action defense expenditures from 2011 to 2014, spending...more

Blank Rome LLP

New Jersey Appellate Division Reverses Class Certification in TGI Friday’s Consumer Fraud Class Action

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Action Item: The Superior Court of New Jersey - Appellate Division reversed a trial court’s class certification decision in a consumer class action arising from whether TGI Friday’s decision to not post drink prices on its...more

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