class action

• Class action lawsuits

• AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion - Impact Of The Supreme Court's Decision On Employment Class Action.

On April 27, 2011, the Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion1 held that mandatory arbitration provisions that prohibit classwide arbitration ar...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Associations to the Rescue: Reviving the Consumer Class Action in the United States and Italy

Introduction - II. The importance of collective actions in providing redress for negative value consumer claims - A. Injuries to Consumers in the United States and Italy: An Illustration - B. The Collective Action as a Consumer’s Only Remedy - III. Italy’s new class action as the government’s remedy - IV. The U.S. and Italian approaches to protecting consumers through collective actions for damages: two important features - A. The Opt-In/Opt-Out Comparison: Which Is More Effective for Consumer Class Actions? - B. Associational Standing: Should it be Broad or Limited? - 1. Associational Standing in Italy - 2. Associational Standing in the United States - V. Synthesizing the opt-in/opt-out class action device and associational standing in Italy and the United States: which flaws are ad...

• Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
• Nbr. 20-1, May 2011

• Class Action

Alan Levin had watched Barnes & Thornburg LLP expand from its Indiana roots to offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C. However, the move to establish a presence in Western Michigan in 2003 had him a little nervous. If we're going into Atlanta like we did last year, it was important for our partners to understand some of the size of Atlanta, information about corporate Atlanta, information about how many law firms they have and the concentration of what type of lawyers and what areas they practice. Education: I went to the University of Pittsburgh for my first two years and transferred to Mercyhurst College (in Erie, Pa.) and got a degree in political science with a minor in business.

• Smart Business Indianapolis
• Vol. 7 Nbr. 6, May 2010

• Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit.

WHOLESALE JUSTICE: CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY AND THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. By Martin H. Redish. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2009. Pp. x, 317. ...

• Michigan Law Review
• Vol. 109 Nbr. 6, April 2011

• Class Action

A plaintiff could not seek class-wide relief when pursuing a private cause of action under federal law prohibiting the sending of unsolicited fax advertisements, the New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled in affirming a dismissal. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act generally prohibits the use of fax machines to send unsolicited advertisements. Section 227(b)(3) of the Act provides a private right of action and fixes damages for such claims at $500 or actual damages, whichever is greater.

• Lawyers USA
• July 30, 2011

• Class Action Litigation Issues in a Wage and Hour Discrimination Context[Dagger]

In any article of this nature, it is important at the outset to note the salient facts. Since this article deals with the subject of wage and hour discrimination within the limits of class action litigation, those facts are contextualized: 1. The number of wage and hour class actions tripled from 1997 to 2004. 2. In 2004, there were 1,500 wage and hour class actions filed in the UE. 3. In 2005, wage and hour litigation outpaced all other types of workplace class actions. Beyond these facts, the results of some significant wage and hour class action cases are worth noting. Class action certification in cases alleging wage and hour discrimination under Federal Rules 23(b)(2) and (b)(3) remains a matter of disparate treatment among the various circuits, although the rulings of the Fifth Ci...

• FDCC Quarterly
• Vol. 58 Nbr. 3, April 2008

• Class Action Coupon Deal Is No Deal

I've gotten to the point where I just ignore responding to the class-action settlement offers that arrive in the mail like the many dandelions now popping up in my front yard. I find myself looking at what's being offered in these coupon settlements and conclude: Why bother?

• Buffalo News
• May 03, 2011

• Class Action

Cesar Alvarez was a better-than-average high school football player, but when he wanted to take his game to the college level, he was discouraged by h...

• Smart Business Miami
• Vol. 2 Nbr. 4, December 2006

• A real class act: the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005's amount in controversy requirement, removal, and the preponderance of the evidence standard.

Decisions concerning the limits of federal court jurisdiction always involve competing claims of interest between the federal government and state gov...

• Defense Counsel Journal
• Vol. 78 Nbr. 1, January 2011

• Constructing Class Action Reality

Class actions have become quite controversial. You regularly hear class actions criticized as a form of "extortion" or "legalized blackmail." This controversy regarding class actions has brought calls for reexamination and reform. A class action permits numerous claims to be adjudicated simultaneously without the need for each individual class member to institute a separate lawsuit. Class actions unquestionably have both a "representative" component and an "aggregate" component. A class action proceeds through the use of one or more named plaintiffs who serve as class representatives and who represent the interests of all class members, both present and absent. Re to focus on the aggregate -- and thereby focus on the efficiency concerns of class litigati...

• Brigham Young University Law Review
• Vol. 2006 Nbr. 6, November 2006