Over the last several years, the class action bar has targeted companies in a wave of putative class actions under state “right of publicity” statutes. Although they vary some around the edges, these statutes generally seek...more
The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's recent watershed decision in Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative Inc. v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC established several significant benchmarks for determining class...more
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The en banc 9th Circuit clarified numerous rules applicable to class actions brought under Rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The court’s watershed decision in Olean Wholesale Grocery v....more
On 10 November 2021, the Supreme Court dismissed the United Kingdom’s first ever “opt-out” class action brought outside of the competition law sector, in Lloyd v Google LLC. The claim, seeking an award of damages of around £3...more
A federal district court rejected a novel request from class counsel for reimbursement of counsel’s litigation funding expenses. According to the court in Perez v. Rash Curtis & Assoc., No. 16-03396 (N.D. Cal. October 1,...more
• Companies across industries continue to face TCPA litigation and address compliance challenges.
• The FCC will soon be addressing key TCPA issues in the wake of the D.C. Circuit’s ruling in ACA International.
• One...more