HRD America

Third Circuit ruling empowers HR to resolve wage disputes faster

Third Circuit decision gives HR leaders more flexibility to resolve wage-and-hour class actions – find out what this means ...
JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Addresses Class Representative Incentive Awards and Attestation Requirement

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 ...
Law

Third Circuit Clarifies Class Action Standing and Ascertainability in 'Kelly'

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 ...
JD Supra

Eleventh Circuit Bans Class Representative Incentive Awards Based on Supreme Court Precedents Long Predating Rule 23

On September 17, 2020, in a first-of-its-kind opinion, the Eleventh Circuit reversed in part a district court’s approval of a class action settlement, holding that “incentive awards”—payments ...
Courthouse News Service

Seventh Circuit dubious of data collection class action

A Ronald Reagan appointee pressed the customers on their standing and supposed injury suffered from having their voiceprints ...
The National Law Review

First Circuit Rejects Class Action Settlement Based on Potential Intra-class Conflict, But Approves Named Plaintiff Incentive Awards

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Reuters

9th Circuit decertifies tuna price-fixing classes, clamps down on uninjured class members

Antitrust class action plaintiffs won a battle on Tuesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Olean Wholesale Grocery Co-op Inc v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC(2021 WL 1257845) that three ...