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RICO class actions: Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal of civil RICO claims by Volkswagen dealers

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BIPA class actions: Seventh Circuit endorses pleading strategy calculated to avoid removal to federal court

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SCOTUS Denies Cert on Seventh Circuit Refusal to Apply Bristol-Myers Personal Jurisdictional Ruling to Class Actions

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SCOTUS grants certiorari to resolve critical class action standing issue

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CAFA: in opinion potentially at odds with two recent pro-removal decisions, Ninth Circuit rules that putative class action must be remanded to state court

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BIPA class actions: Seventh Circuit holds that retention of “inherently sensitive” biometric data gives rise to standing

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Data Breach Class Actions – Eleventh Circuit En Banc Decision Could be Bad News for Plaintiffs

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Motions to strike class allegations: Ninth Circuit vacates order striking class allegations, ruling class discovery must go forward

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SCOTUS declines review of Second Circuit ruling endorsing class arbitration

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TCPA Class Actions – District Court Declares TCPA Robocalling Restriction Unconstitutional From 2015 to 2020

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Third Circuit weakens ascertainability requirement by lowering evidentiary bar

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Internet terms and conditions: Second Circuit declines to enforce arbitration agreement accessible through browsewrap hyperlink

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Ninth Circuit: two pro-defendant decisions clarify burdens regarding CAFA’s $5 million jurisdictional threshold

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Internet terms of use: Ninth Circuit enforces arbitration agreement accessible through browsewrap hyperlink

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Consumer class actions – Ninth Circuit holds that federal and not state law controls the award of equitable restitution under California’s UCL and CLRA

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Data Breach Class Actions – Florida District Court Rules Threat of Future Injury Too Speculative to Support Standing

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Fraud class actions: Ninth Circuit vacates $24 million class judgment on standing and predominance grounds

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TCPA Class Actions – Supreme Court Severs Government Debt Collection Exception

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RICO class actions: District of New Jersey dismisses with prejudice federal RICO claims asserted by indirect purchasers

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Sixth Circuit: incorporation of AAA Rules delegates “gateway” issue of arbitrability to the arbitrator

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Ninth Circuit: Lost interest of under $4 sufficient to confer standing in consumer class action

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Data Breach Class Actions – Eastern District of Virginia Finds Cybersecurity Firm Incident Report Not Protected by Work-Product Doctrine

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Design defect class actions: split Ninth Circuit panel affirms exclusion of common defect expert testimony

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Big pharma antitrust class actions: Third Circuit gives primer on predominance in vacating class certification

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Fifth Circuit: arbitrator’s decision to conduct class arbitration cannot be vacated

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Data breach class actions: Illinois federal court dismisses negligence claims for lack of common law duty and based on the economic loss doctrine (among other rulings)

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Fifth Circuit rules that defendant did not waive Bristol-Myers personal jurisdiction defense asserted at class certification stage

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Second Circuit rejects personal jurisdiction over claims by out-of-state class plaintiffs and again quashes claim of “reasonable consumer” deception

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Class action standing: Ninth Circuit holds members of a damages class must demonstrate Article III standing

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Seventh Circuit rules that Bristol-Myers personal jurisdictional ruling does not apply to class actions

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False advertising class actions – “complete multivitamin” misrepresentation enough to state claims under New Jersey and Florida law

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RICO class actions: D.N.J. rejects claim for private injunctive relief under Federal RICO

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E.D. Texas rules that fraudulent overcharge theory supplies standing for civil RICO class action

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TCPA Class Actions – Eleventh Circuit Narrows Scope of TCPA, Splitting with Ninth Circuit

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Ninth Circuit deepens circuit split in pharmaceutical industry-specific RICO proximate cause ruling

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Data breach class actions – Georgia Supreme Court finds allegations of imminent risk of identity theft sufficient to create standing

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Second Circuit endorses class arbitration

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Ninth Circuit makes multiple pro-removal rulings in reversing sua sponte CAFA remand

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District Court Rejects Class of Pop Warner Football Parents for Lack of Common Misrepresentations

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Eleventh Circuit Reverses Certification of Damages Class Masquerading as Injunction Class

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E.D.N.Y.: Class certification evidence must be admissible

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Eleventh Circuit reinvigorates Spokeo in single text message TCPA case

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D.C. Circuit denies class certification where putative antitrust class includes uninjured class members

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Class-wide damages model: Ninth Circuit cabins Comcast

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California Supreme Court adopts Seventh Circuit’s “weak” view of ascertainability

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TCPA: district court strikes class allegations due to individualized issues of consent and revocation

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Second Circuit again affirms dismissal of “diet soda” consumer fraud class action

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CAFA: Third Circuit holds that denial of class certification does not divest district court of CAFA jurisdiction

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Data Breach Class Actions – Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Duty to Safeguard Personal Information

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Data breach class actions – Eighth Circuit affirms merits dismissal in the SuperValu data breach litigation

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Ninth Circuit upholds arbitration provision testing the “outer limits” of what constitutes an enforceable arbitration agreement

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Landmark Class Settlement Approved to Reform One of the “Harshest and Most Draconian” Solitary Confinement Units in the United States

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What the Lamps Plus court did not say about class arbitration

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First Annual Patenting Trends Study Provides Decision Makers With Clear and Actionable Information for 12 Economically Significant Industries

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The Second Circuit puts another nail in the diet soda class action coffin

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Getting it wrong – remanding a removed class action back to state court after the denial of class certification

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SCOTUS declines to review Sixth Circuit decision affirming class “issue” certification

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SCOTUS punts in cy pres-only class settlement case, remanding on Spokeo standing issue

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Defeating predominance on the issue of class-wide injury (W.D.N.Y.)

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Notes from RICO Class Action Wars Against Pharmaceutical Companies

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Don’t miss the chance to strike out class actions

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Is standing overrated? Data breach defendants who lose standing battles end up winning dismissal on the merits.

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Second Circuit: False labeling class actions – viewed in context, is the theory of deception plausible?

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Arbitration: Justice Kavanaugh eliminates “wholly groundless” exception to delegation clauses – Did you know you had a delegation clause?

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Cy pres-only class settlements – anticipated Supreme Court decision may never come to pass

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Although Resh v. China Agritech only tells the federal side of the equitable tolling story, the California Supreme Court thinks it requires reexamination of a state equitable tolling ruling

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The Lamps Plus oral argument suggests the U.S. Supreme Court may address the threshold issue of an arbitrator’s power to adjudicate the claims of absent class members

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Reading between the lines: the Seventh Circuit’s recent class arbitrability ruling suggests a paradigm for squaring delegation clauses with class action waivers

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Split Ninth Circuit Cements Circuit Split on Admissibility of Class Certification Evidence

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First Circuit addresses an issue that continues to vex (and split) the circuits: should a class be certified that includes uninjured class members?

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Ninth Circuit rules that post-removal attorneys’ fees count towards CAFA’s $5 million threshold, creating split with Seventh Circuit

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Class arbitration – can it even work?

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S.D.N.Y. rules “objector extortion” in class settlement context can and should be sanctioned, and further curtailed by requiring an appellate bond

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Ninth Circuit: proving up CAFA’s “home state” controversy exception – evidence is required and jurisdictional discovery will probably be necessary

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N.D. Cal. sounds the death knell on “diet” soda class actions

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Contradictory testimony dooms class certification of Krazy Glue “slack-fill” class action (C.D. Cal.)

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Cutting a class defendant some slack: the S.D.N.Y. rejects a “least sophisticated consumer” test in dismissing “slack-fill” class action

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RICO class actions: To win certification, the RICO claims must be driven by defendant-specific and not class-member specific evidence; otherwise, individualized issues predominate.

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California Supreme Court: the FLSA’s de minimus rule does not apply to California wage and hour claims, especially wage and hour class actions that are designed to aggregate small claims

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Data breach class actions: Georgia appellate court again rejects negligence claim predicated on alleged duty to safeguard personal information

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Despite Judge Kavanaugh’s thin record on class actions, one tea leaf suggests hostility to using Rule 23 to obtain a “class-wide jackpot”

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Ninth Circuit – a UCL plaintiff must prove “value received” when purchased product has some value

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S.D.N.Y. joins N.D. Cal. in rejecting claim that “diet” soda is deceptive to a reasonable consumer

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Ninth Circuit Declines to Hold CRA Responsible for Subscriber’s Misapplication of Credit Report

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Be Careful What You Wish for When Asserting Article III Standing Challenges

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Deepening district court discord on application of Bristol-Myers to class actions highlights need for appellate guidance

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Supreme Court Approves Employers’ Use of Class-Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements

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Ninth Circuit deepens Circuit split by holding inadmissible evidence can be considered in resolving class certification

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U.S. Supreme Court puts class action doubleheader on the calendar – cy pres awards and class arbitration

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Seventh Circuit: the economic loss doctrine precludes tort claims between participants in a contractual network that allocates risk for a data breach

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Ninth Circuit dismisses TCPA claim, finds recipient’s insurance enrollment form constituted “prior express consent”

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Leveraging Comcast – beating predominance where challenged product has some value

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Ninth Circuit: If you want an arbitration agreement enforced, don’t try to slide it by later

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Fourth Circuit finds manufacturers not vicariously liable for retailers’ TCPA violations

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ERISA class actions: Ninth Circuit rules that a third-party administrator is NOT an ERISA fiduciary with respect to the terms of its own compensation

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Certifying a Settlement Class: What’s Good for the Goose Has to be Good for the Gander

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A Practical Guide to Settling Class Action Cases on Appeal

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New York Trial Court Does Its Best To Shore Up Standard for Approving Disclosure-Only Class Action Settlements

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Five Years After Justice Alito’s Oxford Health Concurrence, Have The Second Circuit and Southern District of New York Signaled The End of Opt-Out Class Arbitrations?

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Fourth Circuit Reaffirms Pre-Dart Cherokee Ruling that Counter-Defendant Cannot Remove Class Action Counterclaims Under CAFA

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We don’t know where we stand – three recent takes on injunctive relief standing in the Ninth Circuit

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Illinois Appellate Court Employs Spokeo-type Reasoning to Hold Biometric Data Class Action Should be Dismissed for Lack of Actual Injury

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California appellate court holds employee’s dismissal of individual labor claims precludes PAGA standing

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House Passes Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017

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A Ninth Circuit Blueprint for a RICO Class Action

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Spokeo and the TCPA: Mere Receipt of Fax with Non-Compliant Opt-Out Notice is Not “Concrete Injury”

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The Eleventh Circuit holds CAFA’s local controversy provision does not preclude the exercise of federal question jurisdiction

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The new CAFA? The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017

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Ninth Circuit: An enforceable arbitration agreement requires notice to and assent by the consumer

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The TCPA and Risk of “Sabotage Liability”

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GORSUCH ON RULE 23 AND CAFA

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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Key Personal Jurisdictional Issue Relevant to Class Action Litigation

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What to Make of the Third and Seventh Circuit Dueling Spokeo Rulings in Recent Privacy Breach Class Actions

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Predominance? Class Defendant Must Introduce Evidence that Individualized Issues Predominate

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Ninth Circuit Rejects Ascertainability as a Requirement for Class Certification Under Rule 23

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Establishing CAFA Jurisdiction in the Face of Contradictory Allegations

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Personal jurisdiction over non-resident class members: An overlooked defense in nationwide class actions?

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Recent Orders in Two California Class Actions Highlight the Need for a Well-Crafted Discovery Strategy

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Beating Class Certification in the Ninth Circuit on the Damages/Restitution Issue