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Developments in Association Law 2022 – 2024

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 9/16/2024

The following is a review of notable cases and regulatory developments for nonprofit organizations at the federal and state levels during the last two years....more

National Mass Torts: 2023 Year in Review

Harris Beach PLLC on 1/24/2024

Sixth Circuit Rejects Overly Ambitious PFAS Class Action - Hardwick v. 3M Co. (In re E.I. du Pont de Nemours), No. 22-3765, 87 F.4th 315 (6th Cir. Nov. 27, 2023) - The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit...more

Personal Jurisdiction of Opt-In Plaintiffs Under the FLSA: Will the Supreme Court Resolve the Circuit Split this Summer?

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 3/6/2023

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark opinion in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017), a question arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions is...more

Class Action Trends Report June 2022

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/29/2022

In this issue of the Class Action Trends Report, Jackson Lewis attorneys discuss recent developments in arbitration and their impact on employment class actions. These include the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault...more

SCOTUS Denies Cert on Seventh Circuit Refusal to Apply Bristol-Myers Personal Jurisdictional Ruling to Class Actions

Kilpatrick on 1/27/2021

Takeaway: We previously wrote that a number of district courts had split on whether to apply the Supreme Court’s personal jurisdictional ruling in Bristol-Myers to class actions. We then wrote an update that the Seventh...more

Supreme Court Declines to Resolve Whether Its Bristol-Myers Squibb Decision Applies to Class Actions

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/18/2021

The Supreme Court recently declined to review the Seventh Circuit’s ruling in Mussat v. IQVIA, Inc., 953 F.3d 441 (7th Cir. 2020), which found that the logic of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, 582 US...more

The Class Action Chronicle - August 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/11/2020

Interpreting Bristol-Myers : Are Unnamed Members of Nationwide Class Actions ‘Parties’? If So, When? In 2017, the Supreme Court decided Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California (BMS), holding that a...more

Personal Jurisdiction and Class Actions: D.C. and Seventh Circuit Address Whether Bristol-Myers Applies to Class Actions

Dechert LLP on 3/30/2020

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court, class action defendants have arguments that there is no personal jurisdiction over non-resident class members in putative class actions brought...more

Southern District Of New York Dismisses Claim That Underwriter Of Regulation A+ Offering Was A Seller Of Unregistered Securities,...

A&O Shearman on 4/23/2019

On April 11, 2019, Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted in part and denied in part an underwriter’s motion to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit filed...more

Skadden's 2019 Insights: Significant Rulings Expected for Ongoing Mass Tort, Consumer Class Action Issues

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/24/2019

In 2019, significant developments are expected on issues that have been percolating in the mass tort and class action litigation arena for several years. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on cases relating to...more

A Brief Look at Justice Kennedy’s Rule 23 Record

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 7/19/2018

While he often kept us guessing about how he might vote in politically significant cases, retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy was far more predictable on class action issues over the course of his 30-year tenure on the Supreme...more

Personal Jurisdiction over Non-resident Class Members? District Courts Diverge on Application of Bristol-Myers Squibb to...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/22/2018

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark personal-jurisdiction decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb, federal district courts have continued to disagree about whether to apply the court’s holding to cases involving nationwide class...more

Bristol-Myers Squibb: A Dangerous Sword

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/26/2018

On June 19, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that has the potential to reshape the way class actions are litigated in courts throughout the country. In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California,...more

District Courts Split On Whether Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Specific Personal Jurisdiction Analysis Bars Nationwide Class Actions In...

Carlton Fields on 3/23/2018

The ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco Cty., 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017), remain unsettled. ...more

Federal District Courts Tackle Application of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court to Class Actions

Pierce Atwood LLP on 2/14/2018

In June 2017, we wrote about the Supreme Court’s decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017) and how it would likely affect attempts by plaintiffs to pursue multi-state or nationwide class...more

Supreme Court Ruling Signals Limits on Class Action Forum Shopping

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/6/2018

The Supreme Court’s decision last summer in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017), is my pick for “2017 Class Action Practitioners’ Case of the Year”––and it’s not even a class case....more

A Look Back at Significant Developments in Class Action Law in 2017

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/26/2018

From the standpoint of class action practice, 2017 was as important for what did not happen as for what did. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights of the 2017 class action scorecard, with a look forward to how the...more

California Class Actions: 2018 Update

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed on 1/10/2018

I. TWO SCOTUS DECISIONS THAT MATTERED - A. Litigation Tourism, Type 1: Bristol-Myers Squibb. - If you are sued by a “litigation tourist” in a class or mass action and suit is not brought in your home state, you now...more

U.S. Supreme Court’s Narrow Application Of Specific Jurisdiction Will Impede Forum Shopping In Class Actions

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/30/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: In Bristol-Myers Squibb Company v. Superior Court of California, et al., No. 16-466 (U.S. June 19, 2017), the U.S. Supreme Court articulated the narrow circumstances under which specific jurisdiction will...more

Update: US Supreme Court Reverses California’s Expansion of Personal Jurisdiction

Latham & Watkins LLP on 6/29/2017

Nation’s highest court reverses California Supreme Court decision that extended the jurisdictional reach of state courts. In the 2016 case Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court (Anderson), the California Supreme Court...more

Class Action Defendants Win Home Court Advantage in Supreme Court Ruling on Specific Jurisdiction in Bristol-Myers Case

Fenwick & West LLP on 6/29/2017

In a decisive 8-1 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a theory of specific jurisdiction that would allow a state court to assert specific jurisdiction over the claims of out-of-state plaintiffs whose claims were not...more

U.S. Supreme Court Limits the Exercise of Specific Personal Jurisdiction by State Courts

Dickinson Wright on 6/28/2017

The U.S. Supreme Court recently tightened the reins when it comes to state courts’ exercise of case-based, specific personal jurisdiction over out-of-state companies. In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of...more

Supreme Court Says “No” to “Litigation Tourism”

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Class Dismissed on 6/26/2017

There has been a lot said already about the effect on product liability (especially drug) cases and “mass actions” as a result of the United States Supreme Court’s June 17, 2017 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v....more

Multi-State Class Actions After the Supreme Court’s Decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court

Pierce Atwood LLP on 6/26/2017

On June 19th, the Supreme Court issued a decision that could have important consequences for multi-state class actions. In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, the Court addressed the question whether a California...more

Supreme Court Solidifies Specific Jurisdiction Analysis To Dismiss Product Claims Filed Against Non-Resident Defendant,...

Cozen O'Connor on 6/26/2017

Product manufacturers routinely hauled into court in far away, inconvenient jurisdictions can breathe a little easier with the Supreme Court’s decision this week in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California. ...more

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