The US Supreme Court denied a certiorari petition seeking to resolve circuit court splits relevant to the litigation of class action matters, including if and when class certification is appropriate ...
A federal district court judge refused to certify a class led by a serial plaintiff who prolonged unsolicited calls in order to create a cause of action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ...
There is an abiding myth among practitioners in the plaintiffs’ class action bar—regularly rejected but repeated by rote—that affirmative defenses are irrelevant to class certification. For example, ...