(Reuters) - In its Oct. 15 opinion in In re Asacol (2018 WL 4958856) the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals clarified its position on an issue that continues to cause much consternation among the ...

When a class action is removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), plaintiffs sometimes amend their pleadings to try to defeat federal jurisdiction. The recent U.S. Court of ...

These two pressures have probably kept many a consumer attorney up at night as they wrestled with how best to bring a would-be consumer class action in the Third Circuit knowing the case law that ...

En banc 9th Circuit affirmed a $210 million settlement in multidistrict litigation against Hyundai and Kia relating to their alleged misrepresentations about the fuel efficiency of their vehicles, ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently weighed in on the effect of uninjured class members on class certification—decertifying three classes in Olean Wholesale Grocery Coop. v. Bee ...

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On Wednesday I examined two aspects of Monday’s 2nd Circuit decision mostly upholding firearms and magazine bans in New York and Connecticut, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Cuomo and ...

(Reuters) - In the space of two days, two federal circuits have assured the future of nationwide class actions, rejecting defendants’ arguments that under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017 ruling in ...