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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.
Carlton Fields

Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions From Federal Appellate Courts June 2024

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The Roundup covers notable class action decisions each month from federal appellate courts, as well as notable Supreme Court class action cert petitions....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Class Action Chronicle

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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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ohio Federal Court Rules That Varying “Interests” And “Feelings” Among Putative Class Members Prevents Class Certification

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Although federal courts are certifying class actions at a record rate, a recent opinion by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio demonstrates that the requirements of Rule 23 are not...more

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Courts Solidify Reach of China Agritech

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Circuit courts of appeal are solidifying the reach of the Supreme Court’s June 2018 decision in China Agritech v. Resh and curtailing the availability of equitable tolling in class contexts. The Supreme Court’s decision in...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

TCPA Taking its Toll: Third Circuit Court of Appeal Rejects Tolling of TCPA Claims in favor of Plaintiff that Served as Class...

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The TCPA legal doctrine atom smasher continues to, well, smash atoms. Earlier today we learned a bit about Article III standing of class representatives from a TCPA case, and now the wide world gets to learn about the...more

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Supreme Court Limits American Pipe Tolling for Successive Class Actions

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In China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the filing of a class action complaint does not toll a statute of limitations period for later-filed class actions raising the same claims. The...more

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Supreme Court Holds That American Pipe Tolling Does Not Apply to Successive Class Actions

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Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court in China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh, No. 17-342, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, Kagan, and Gorsuch joined. Justice Sotomayor filed...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - November 2017/ Volume 9 / Issue 4

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This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between August 2017 and October 2017....more

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Product Liability Update: January 2016

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Supreme Court Holds Defendant Cannot Moot Putative Class Action by Making Unaccepted Offer of Judgment for Complete Relief to Representative Plaintiff - In Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, No. 14-857, 2016 U.S. LEXIS 846 (S....more

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11th Circuit Declines to Follow the Pack on “No Piggybacking” Rule

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On August 3, 2015, the 11th Circuit held in Ewing Industries Corp. v. Bob Wines Nursery, Inc., No. 14-13842, 2015 WL 4605234 (11th Cir. Aug. 3, 2015) that the pendency of a purported class action does not toll the limitations...more

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