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Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Jenna Greene | June 26, 2017
Why is lawyer rating site Avvo in a fight with an ex-cheerleader? And what's up with all the Justice-Kennedy-Might-Retire speculation? How did Simpson Thacher defeat class cert? All this and more...
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 23, 2017
A federal jury has awarded $218 million to 7,300 farmers in Kansas who brought a class action alleging Syngenta AG was negligent in selling a genetically modified strain of corn seed that it knew China wouldn't import.
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By Ross Todd | June 23, 2017
Plaintiffs attorneys are expected to net nearly 33 percent in fees, or almost $38 million.
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By Jenna Greene | June 22, 2017
As states, cities and counties pile on to sue opioid manufacturers for fueling drug addiction, it's got a familiar feeling: the suits against big tobacco.
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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.
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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.
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By Jenna Greene | June 21, 2017
“A classic Catch-22.” “A Hobson's choice.” “Deeply problematic.” That's how a dozen top law school professors describe the Trump University fraud settlement in an amicus brief. It's a strong argument—and it may be enough to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel's March 31 approval of the settlement.
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By Scott Flaherty | June 20, 2017
It was a record year for securities settlements and for the plaintiffs lawyers that represented investors in securities class actions.
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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.
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By Matthew F. Gately | June 19, 2017
When Spokeo v. Robins is properly understood as a jurisdictional decision, it becomes clear that it will not, as some have predicted, spell the demise of an entire category of class actions. Instead, it will simply shift the adjudication of those cases to state court.
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