By Amanda Bronstad | June 21, 2017
A loophole left open for defendants in a critical class action ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last year is making little headway in the courts, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit striking down the procedural maneuver this week.
By Marcia Coyle | June 21, 2017
Big-business advocates are lining up with the Trump administration's new position in the U.S. Supreme Court that workplace arbitration agreements banning class actions do not violate federal labor law.
By Ross Todd | June 20, 2017
Elizabeth Cabraser will reprise her role leading an emissions-related MDL—to the chagrin of at least one of her co-counsel.
By Marcia Coyle | June 16, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday reversed its position in a key labor case, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that workplace agreements that ban class actions do not run afoul of federal labor law.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 15, 2017
Eli Lilly & Co. plans to move this month to dismiss a long-standing appeal in a case brought on behalf of a proposed class of consumers who used Cymbalta, an antidepressant prescription drug, according to a status report filed this week. The reason: Monday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in "Microsoft v. Baker," which blocked a controversial procedural tool that allowed plaintiffs to appeal class certification orders by dismissing their own case.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 13, 2017
One of the claimants in the Trump University case--herself a Florida lawyer--has asked a federal appeals court to unravel the $25 million agreement that settled the matter shortly after Donald Trump was elected president – and she's brought in noted appellate attorney Deepak Gupta to do it.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 12, 2017
In a ruling reverberating through the class action bar, the U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a controversial procedural tool that allowed plaintiffs attorneys to appeal class certification orders by dismissing their own case.
By Cogan Schneier | June 7, 2017
Sessions said DOJ attorneys may no longer enter settlement agreements on behalf of the nation that direct or provide “for a payment or loan to any non-governmental person or entity that is not a party to the dispute.”
By Marcia Coyle | June 5, 2017
The employee retirement plans of religious-affiliated nonprofits are exempt from the protections and requirements of the federal pension law, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The decision was a blow to multimillion-dollar class actions that seek to hold those plans liable for violating the federal law.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 19, 2017
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s multimillion-dollar agreement this week to compensate employees who were refused benefits for same-sex partners marks one of the first class action settlements brought on behalf of LGBT workers, and it comes at a time when the legal and corporate landscapes are moving toward embracing equal protections.
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