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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the courtroom, word comes from BNA's U.S. Law Week that the plaintiffs' bar is supporting a new bill by New York Democrat Jerry Nadler (H.R. 4115) that not only would reverse Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct....
California state courts are reluctant to apply their Unfair Competition Law to a nationwide class. Perhaps it's because they recognize that theirs is one of the most liberal (and standardless) consumer fraud statutes in the nation. Whatever the...
In Mann v. CSX Transportation, Inc., Case No. 1:07-cv-3512, Slip op. (N.D. Ohio Nov. 10, 2009), plaintiffs sought medical monitoring as a result of a train derailment near Painesville, Ohio that resulted in a chemical fire that burned for 60 hours and...
It's hardly news when another court refuses to certify a personal injury class action. These days, it's almost a given that such litigation presents too many individual issues of fact to meet the predominance standard of Rule 23(b)(3).
But the...
Last week I posted about a news article reporting that the Center for Science in the Public Interest's putative statewide class action pending in New Jersey against Denny's was dismissed for failure to meet the standards of the New Jersey Product...
