John Landry on Class Certification

Eighth Circuit Holds Rule 23(b)(3)’s Predominance Requirement Not Met in Securities Fraud Action Against Brokerage Firm

In Ford v. TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 12008 (8th Cir. Apr. 23, 2021), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a district court’s order certifying a class of customers who had...more

5/5/2021 / Algorithmic Trading , Appeals , Broker-Dealer , Class Action , Class Certification , FRCP 23(b)(3) , Predominance Requirement , Securities Fraud

If At First You Don’t Succeed: The Ninth Circuit Invites Successive Class Actions By Extending American Pipe Tolling To Absent...

In Resh v. China Agritech, No. 15-5543, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 9029 (9th Cir. May 24, 2017), a Ninth Circuit panel held that a pending putative class action in which class certification is ultimately denied tolls the statute of...more

6/12/2017 / Class Certification , Corporate Counsel , Putative Class Actions , Securities Fraud , Statute of Limitations , Tolling

Eighth Circuit Reverses District Court for Ignoring Price-Impact Evidence That Rebutted the Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption and...

In IBEW Local 98 Pension Fund v. Best Buy Co., Inc., No. 14-3178 (8th Cir. Apr. 12, 2016), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held, in a Rule 10b-5 securities fraud action, that the district court...more

5/9/2016 / Best Buy , Class Action , Class Certification , Financial Markets , Fraud-on-the-Market , FRCP 23(b)(3) , Halliburton v Erica P. John Fund , Material Misstatements , Rule 10b-5 , Securities Fraud , Stock Prices

District Court Cites Recent “Evolution” of Rule 23 Standards to Deny Class Certification Motion in Securities Action Based Upon...

In re Kosmos Energy Ltd. Securities Litigation, No. 3:12-CV-373-B, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36365 (N.D. Tex. Mar. 19, 2014), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Boyle, J.) denied lead plaintiff’s...more

4/2/2014 / Class Action , Class Certification , Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , FRCP 23 , Misleading Statements , Registration

Ninth Circuit Concludes That Common Issues Do Not Predominate Where Retailer’s In-Store Signs and Oral Sales Statements Place Each...

In Berger v. Home Depot USA, Inc., Case No. 11-55592, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 2059 (9th Cir. Feb. 3, 2014), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of class certification based largely on evidence that the...more

2/17/2014 / Class Action , Class Certification , Point of Sale Terminals , Putative Class Actions , Retailers

Fifth Circuit Holds That Securities Fraud Defendants May Not Rebut the Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption at the Class Certification...

In Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., No. 12-10544, 2013 WL 1809760 (5th Cir. Apr. 30, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a defendant in a securities fraud class action is not...more

6/25/2013 / Class Certification , Fraud-on-the-Market , FRCP 23 , Halliburton , Material Misstatements , Materiality

Second Circuit Reverses Class Certification Order, Holding That a Clearing Broker's Alleged Knowledge of Fraud Against...

In Levitt v. J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc., No. 10-4596, 2013 WL 1007678 (2d Cir. Mar. 15, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a district court order certifying a class of shareholder...more

3/28/2013 / Bear Sterns , Brokers , Class Action , Class Certification , Disclosure Requirements , Fiduciary Duty , Fraud , JPMorgan Chase , Shareholders

United States Supreme Court Holds that Class Action Securities Fraud Plaintiffs Need Not Prove the Materiality of the Alleged...

In Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds, No. 11-1085, ___ WL ______ (U.S. Feb. 27, 2013), the United States Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...more

3/8/2013 / Amgen Inc. v Connecticut Retirement Plans , Class Action , Class Certification , Fraud-on-the-Market , SCOTUS , Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) , Securities Fraud

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