When a class action is removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), plaintiffs sometimes amend their pleadings to try to defeat federal jurisdiction. The recent U.S. Court of ...
A recent Ninth Circuit decision on a class action settlement, In re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation, 2022 WL 4492078 (9th Cir. Sept. 28, 2022), received significant attention in the legal ...
These two pressures have probably kept many a consumer attorney up at night as they wrestled with how best to bring a would-be consumer class action in the Third Circuit knowing the case law that ...
The Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the trial court acted within its discretion because class counsel’s conduct made clear that “counsel was no longer adequately representing the class.”[11] ...
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The Sixth Circuit concluded a federal judge for the Western District of Tennessee did not abuse its discretion when it certified the class. However, the Third, Fourth, Seventh and Ninth circuits this ...
Article 725 provides the requirements for Class 2 circuits in Part III. The definitions for Class 2 circuits can be found in Art. 100. In the November 2020 issue, we discussed the general requirements ...
On Wednesday I examined two aspects of Monday’s 2nd Circuit decision mostly upholding firearms and magazine bans in New York and Connecticut, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Cuomo and ...
If the power source is a listed Class 2 transformer or listed Class 2 power supply — or it’s in listed equipment marked to identify the Class 2 power source — you’ve got a Class 2 circuit between the ...