Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 15, 2017
Class Action Does Not Fall Into Mandatory Exception to Class Action Fairness Act
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By Tom McParland | June 15, 2017
A shareholder in Cabela's Inc. has filed a new class action complaint over the outdoor retailer's $5 billion sale to rival Bass Pro Shop, accusing the Cabela's board of failing to make important disclosures regarding the deal.
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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.
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By Samantha Joseph | June 15, 2017
Coral Springs attorney Mitchel Chusid filed a class action lawsuit to force Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association to cover his wife's $15,600-per-month cancer medication.
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By Ben Hancock | June 14, 2017
The legal saga continues for the once-vaunted blood testing company. But it has scored a significant win in a lawsuit brought on behalf of unhappy patients.
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By Michael Booth | June 14, 2017
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor accusing the operator of 17 Houlihan's restaurants in New Jersey and New York of illegally pocketing portions of servers' and bartenders' tips, and failing to pay them for working overtime.
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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.
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By therecorder | The Recorder | June 12, 2017
U.S. Sup. Ct.; 15–457 Orders granting or denying class certification are inherently interlocutory, hence not immediately reviewable under 28 U.…
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By Rebecca Baker | June 12, 2017
"This civil rights class action is the paradigm of change and progress achievable in a society undergirded by the rule of law," Southern District Judge Robert Sweet wrote in approving the settlement in a case that accused NYPD officers of writing at least 900,000 summonses that were later dismissed as insufficient.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Tom McParland | June 12, 2017
Employees of TransPerfect Global who said they faced "increased risk" of identity theft after their personal information was stolen in a January 2017 data breach lack standing to sue because they had not suffered an actual or impending injury, attorneys for the company said last week in filings in New York federal court.
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