Please join us for a webinar on the 2024 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey results. Now in its 13th year, the survey offers both a current snapshot and insights over time into management practices and experiences of in-house...more
The 2023 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey provides an overview of important issues and practices related to class action matters and management. The annual publication reports on historical trends captured since the...more
Carlton Fields is pleased to share its 11th annual Class Action Survey, which provides an overview of important issues and practices related to class action matters and management. This annual publication reports on...more
The 2022 Carlton Fields Class Action Survey reveals that companies with class actions are seeing increases in the number of class actions they face at a given time. The current portfolio reveals the highest number of both...more
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....more
12/10/2021
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Class Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Breach ,
NCAA ,
Predominance Requirement ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Standing ,
Student Athletes ,
TCPA ,
TransUnion LLC v Ramirez
Even before the current pandemic crisis, we have noticed a growing trend in the filing of class action lawsuits challenging, under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), notices required to be issued by...more
Bakov v. Consolidated World Travel, Inc. is the latest salvo in the conflict over whether the Supreme Court’s personal jurisdiction decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb applies in the class action context. ...more
Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540, 1549 (2016) – which held that Article III standing requires a concrete injury, even when an injury has otherwise been established...more
2/9/2017
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Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Corporate Counsel ,
FRCP 23 ,
FRCP 23(b)(3) ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
Robocalling ,
Spokeo v Robins ,
Standing ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications
On August 31, the Ninth Circuit continued its trend of certifying “no injury” classes, this time in the context of an Agricultural Workers’ Protection Act claim that a Washington state fruit and vegetable farm violated the...more
Khasin v. R. C. Bigelow, Inc., No. 12-CV-02204-WHO, 2016 WL 1213767 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 29, 2016), provides a recent example of a class-certification denial premised on the “damages model” rule expressed in Comcast Corp. v....more
Tyson Foods lost its bid to overturn an almost $3 million class action judgment against it in a case brought by workers at an Iowa pork-processing factory who contended they did not receive overtime pay for time spent...more
On February 3, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision affirming summary judgment in favor of the defendant on a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim in Baird v. Sabre, Inc.,...more
This concludes our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits.
An order granting class certification is not the end of the battle regarding...more
This continues our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits.
The defense team must consider whether the company’s best interests are better...more
This continues our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits.
It is important to remind the court frequently that the plaintiffs bear the...more
This continues our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits. Here, we focus on the uses of expert testimony.
The Role of the Expert at the...more
This continues our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits. Here, we begin a discussion of the use of expert testimony.
Occasionally,...more
This continues our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits.
Inside and outside counsel should have different but complimentary roles in...more
This continues our series of blog posts on effective partnering between inside and outside counsel to defend against class action lawsuits. Here we discuss strategies in class action engagement, focusing on understanding the...more
The following series of blog posts were excerpted from the class actions chapter of Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, a multi-volume treatise that is a joint project of West and the Association of...more