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The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19667 (7th Cir. 2025) significantly changes how federal courts within the circuit will handle collective actions under the Fair Labor...more
On August 27, an Illinois appellate court affirmed a trial court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in an FDCPA class action. The case involved a 2022 collection email about a charged-off account originally opened...more
We have written before about class actions involving disputes about automobile insurers’ valuations of wrecked vehicles deemed a total loss. See, e.g., Eleventh Circuit reverses dismissal of class action disputing State...more
In a recent decision, the Seventh Circuit favorably revised the standard for defendant employers faced with a putative collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act...more
On August 13, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a district court order granting class certification in a putative securities class action against an electric services company (the...more
On August 20, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a class action asserting claims under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 against a reinsurance company and certain of its executives. In...more
In re Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. S’holder Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 2019-0798-JTL (Del. Ch. Mar. 21, 2025) After the Court awarded damages post-trial of $.87 per share to stockholders whom the Court found had been...more
A Fourth Circuit panel affirmed the denial of a motion to compel arbitration, finding that the law firm and debt collector who sought to compel arbitration of a class action had waived the right to arbitrate by previously...more
In a notable victory for corporations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a critical ruling in In re: FirstEnergy Corporation that strengthens the protections of the attorney-client privilege and...more
In an unreported but nonetheless instructive opinion, the Ninth Circuit took another swipe at negotiated attorneys’ fees in class action settlements. In Maree v. Deutsche Lufthansa, AG, Case No. 23-55795, 2025 WL 2268254 (9th...more
This blog often focuses on traditional, opt-out class actions brought under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, but there is another common form of mass action: collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the...more
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed a Texas district court’s denial of class certification in the case of Wilson v. Centene Management. In the litigation, three Texans filed suit against Centene...more
On Aug. 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held that exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO) constitutes a concrete, present injury sufficient for Article III standing where costs for present medical monitoring are...more
Internal investigations have become a relatively normal part of doing business, but that does not mean the fruits of those investigations are discoverable even if they have a “business purpose.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for...more
The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co. et al. (Aug. 5, 2025) marks a pivotal shift in how district courts manage collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) across Illinois,...more
On August 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court’s decision that denied a plaintiff’s motion for class certification in her lawsuit against a bank. The plaintiff, a South Carolina...more
The full text of each summary can be found below through the Table of Contents links. Highlights from this issue include: Uninjured Class Members. The Supreme Court had originally granted a writ to decide whether federal...more
Another federal appellate court has rejected the Lusardi approach to managing collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. In Richards v. Eli Lilly & Co., the U.S....more
On July 24, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed that President Trump’s Executive Order 14160 aimed at ending birthright citizenship, violates the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and is...more
The Seventh Circuit has joined the Fifth and Sixth Circuits in establishing a higher bar for employees to clear before courts may authorize “notice” to potential members of an FLSA collective action. Although the Seventh...more
In Voltage Pictures v Robert Salna, 2025 FCA 131, the Federal Court of Appeal addressed the preferable procedure criterion in the context of a defendants’ class proceeding. The plaintiffs sought to certify an action against a...more
In what was a significant decision for the automotive industry, the Supreme Court has allowed the lenders' appeal in part in its much-anticipated judgment relating to lender liability for the payment of third-party broker...more
On 1 August 2025, the Court of Appeal handed down its landmark judgment in Le Patourel v BT1 refusing the class representative permission to appeal the Competition Appeal Tribunal's ("CAT") dismissal of the opt-out class...more
After a debt collector filed suit to collect an expired debt, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the debt collector could not later compel arbitration of the debtor’s class action because arbitration...more
This Blog has written frequently about the substance and scope of general releases. In New York, “a valid release constitutes a complete bar to an action on a claim which is the subject of the release.” If “the language of a...more