Article 725 provides the requirements for Class 2 circuits in Part III. The definitions for Class 2 circuits can be found in Art. 100. In the November 2020 issue, we discussed the general requirements ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set important precedent in relatively unmapped territory in its ruling Tuesday in In re Volkswagen ‘Clean Diesel’ Litigation. Judges Milan Smith and ...

Antitrust class action plaintiffs won a battle on Tuesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Olean Wholesale Grocery Co-op Inc v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC(2021 WL 1257845) that three ...

“Class arbitration” signifies the utilization of the Fed.R.Civ.P. 23 protocol in an arbitration proceeding. A fundamental question among many concerning the legal viability of “class arbitration” is ...

For both sides, a liberal standard for interlocutory appeal increases the opportunity for appellate review of a class certification decision at the most appropriate and efficient time. The Third ...

A recent Ninth Circuit decision on a class action settlement, In re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation, 2022 WL 4492078 (9th Cir. Sept. 28, 2022), received significant attention in the legal ...

On Wednesday, Qualcomm, a widely-used cell phone chip manufacturer, won its bid to decertify an antitrust class against it. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found ...