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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
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Spain's Draft Law on Collective Actions to Transpose EU Directive 2020/1828

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Spain is moving forward with transposition of the EU Representative Actions Directive, aiming to unify rules and strengthen consumer protection....more

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House Passes Bill Barring “Mandatory Arbitration” in Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases

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On February 7, 2022, in a 335-97 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill (“Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021”), which would prohibit “mandatory arbitration”...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

U.S. House Considers Limiting Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

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Since the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, which deemed class action waivers in employment agreements permissible, employers have increasingly relied upon mandatory arbitration provisions to limit...more

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An EU Approach to Class Action Litigation

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• A U.S.-style class action regime looms large in the European Union. • The current draft legislation imports certain hallmarks of the system celebrated by U.S. plaintiffs’ lawyers, but there is uncertainty over what...more

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Decisive step toward a European collective redress mechanism such as group or class actions

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On 7 December 2018, the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee passed a legislative proposal to allow collective redress, such as group or class actions, moving the European Union closer to having a bloc-wide regime....more

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Halloween Bill Provides A Scare By Seeking To Prohibit Workplace Arbitration Altogether

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Congress has once again proposed legislation that would seek to ban mandatory workplace arbitration of employment claims, despite a string of United States Supreme Court decisions upholding arbitration and...more

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