This month, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued what appears to be the first appellate opinion applying the “manifested defect” rule to the Class Action Fairness Act’s (“CAFA”) $5 million amount-in-controversy...more
In the wake of COVID-19 and governmental closure orders, many businesses were forced to temporarily suspend their operations. Consequently, many consumer-facing businesses lost out on a significant source of income. As...more
Every so often there is a new killer virus on the horizon. In the past decade, it was MERS. In the 2000s, it was SARS, the bird flu, and H1N1. In the 1990s, it was Ebola. In the 1970s, it was swine flu. In 1918, it was the...more