In the latest decision in a long-running saga in Drazen v. Pinto, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals tackled several issues regarding a proposed class settlement agreement. As we previously reported and discussed, Drazen involved three consolidated class actions against GoDaddy.com LLC, alleging that the company violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unwanted text messages and calls through a prohibited automatic telephone dialing system ... Keep Reading »
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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 »
The Lack of Actual Injury Defense: The Landscape Since TransUnion
The 2023 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey found that the second most successful class action defense is the lack of any actual injury suffered by some or all of the class. It also found that this defense made a big jump in effectiveness from the previous year’s survey. Those findings may be related to the fact that just over two years ago, in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, the Supreme Court confirmed that “Article III does not give federal courts the power to order ... Keep Reading »
District Court Asks Sixth Circuit to Review Two-Step FLSA Collective Certification Test
The Sixth Circuit will soon tell us whether it will follow the Fifth Circuit’s lead in Swales v. KLLM Transport Services LLC and adopt a more exacting, one-stage certification approach for Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions, or instead officially adopt the two-stage certification process set out in Lusardi v. Xerox Corp., which is currently followed by most district courts. In Holder v. A&L Home Care & Training Center LLC, former aides claimed that ... Keep Reading »
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Class Certification and Settlement in “Factually Peculiar” In re Checking Account Overdraft Litigation Saga
Twelve years after it started, the saga of RBC Bank’s alleged improper assessment and collection of overdraft fees appears to have come to an end. In affirming the district court's certification of the class and approval of a settlement, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed that “typicality” under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 does not require identical claims or defenses and that only a substantial conflict of interest can destroy adequacy of a class ... Keep Reading »
Cy Pres Settlements in the Ninth Circuit – A View From the Street
Cy pres-only class action settlements are alive and well in the Ninth Circuit, where a unanimous panel of the court recently affirmed a settlement that provides no monetary relief whatsoever to the class, but awarded millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees to class counsel and distributed monetary relief to nine, third-party cy pres recipients. The case, In re Google Inc. Street View Electronic Communications Litigation, revolved around the collection of private data by ... Keep Reading »
A Year in Review: Top 10 Class Action Cases of 2021
This year has been an important one for class action law. Here are 10 of the most important class action cases of 2021 and their impact on class action litigation. TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez In TransUnion, a class of 8,185 individuals sued TransUnion under the Fair Credit Reporting Act after the company had erroneously indicated that their names potentially matched a name on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control list of terrorists, drug ... Keep Reading »
Inherently Transitory Exception to Save Transgender Inmate Putative Class?
Mootness, as one of the big three justiciability requirements, is a jurisdictional requirement on which judges do not normally postpone adjudication. But in a recent putative class action of transgender inmates, the D.C. district court held off on its determination to examine a rarely invoked exception to the mootness doctrine applied only in the class context. Sunday Hinton, a transgender woman who was housed in the men’s unit of the D.C. jail, brought a putative ... Keep Reading »
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