The Roundup covers notable class action decisions each month from federal appellate courts, as well as notable Supreme Court class action cert petitions. Third Circuit Forsythe v. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. – The district court certified a securities class action against Teva, which filed a Rule 23(f) petition seeking permission to appeal that order. Teva argued that the Third Circuit should take the interlocutory appeal to resolve a novel issue, ... Keep Reading »
Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions From Federal Appellate Courts April 2024
The Roundup covers notable class action decisions each month from federal appellate courts, as well as notable Supreme Court class action cert petitions. Seventh Circuit In re Recalled Abbott Infant Formula Products Liability Litigation – This decision concerns Article III standing. The FDA warned consumers not to use baby formula produced at a certain Abbott facility during a certain period. Abbott voluntarily recalled some of the baby formula manufactured at ... Keep Reading »
Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions From Federal Appellate Courts – March 2024
The Roundup covers notable class action decisions each month from federal appellate courts, as well as notable Supreme Court class action cert petitions. Second Circuit Behrens v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. – In this decision, the Second Circuit answered a question of first impression for that court: “whether the existence of subject-matter jurisdiction requires a district court to exercise it, even if it is invoked belatedly—on analogy to the rule that a party ... Keep Reading »
Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions From Federal Appellate Courts – February 2024
The Roundup is a monthly publication that covers the previous month’s notable class action decisions from federal appellate courts, as well as notable Supreme Court cert petitions related to class actions. Third Circuit Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC – This decision concerns a putative class action asserting claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The named plaintiff alleged that the defendant debt collector violated the FDCPA by ... Keep Reading »
Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions From Federal Appellate Courts – January 2024
The Roundup is a monthly publication that covers the previous month’s notable class action decisions from federal appellate courts, as well as notable Supreme Court cert petitions related to class actions. Fifth Circuit Dixon v. D.R. Horton, Inc. – D.R. Horton removed a Louisiana state court class action against it to federal court, invoking CAFA jurisdiction, and the plaintiffs moved to remand, citing the “local controversy” exception to CAFA jurisdiction. The ... Keep Reading »
Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions From Federal Appellate Courts
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Classified Monthly: A Roundup of Class Action Decisions from Federal Appellate Courts. The Roundup normally will arrive in your inbox the first week of each month and will cover the previous month’s notable decisions. Because December was a light month for decisions, this inaugural edition covers both November and December. Second Circuit Krasner v. Cedar Trust Realty, Inc. – This decision interprets the ... Keep Reading »
11th Circuit Stands Alone in Barring All Class Incentive Awards
Nearly three years after its decision in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions LLC, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals remains the only circuit in the nation to categorically bar class representatives from receiving incentive awards. The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied a petition for certiorari to review the Eleventh Circuit’s first-in-the-nation decision in Johnson. Three other circuits, the First, Second, and Ninth Circuits, have explicitly rejected the Eleventh Circuit’s ... Keep Reading »
Delivery in 30 Minutes or Less: Supreme Court Punts on Who Qualifies Under FAA Exemption for Interstate Commerce Workers
In Domino’s Pizza LLC v. Carmona, Domino’s petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify whether drivers making only in-state deliveries of goods, ordered by in-state customers from an in-state warehouse, engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, exempting them from arbitration under Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act. The Supreme Court on October 17, 2022, granted Domino’s petition for certiorari, vacated the Ninth Circuit’s ruling allowing the drivers to ... Keep Reading »
More Alike Than Different: Sixth Circuit Instructs MDL Court to Find Efficiencies Within Federal Rules Governing Individual Cases
Judges presiding over multidistrict litigations, known as MDLs, must walk a tightrope between individual and collective needs. As the Sixth Circuit reminded us in a recent decision, In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, this can be an especially challenging balancing act for a district judge. On the one hand, MDL courts operate within the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, designed largely to adjudicate individual cases. On the other hand, an MDL exists so that ... Keep Reading »