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Seventh Circuit Ruling Provides Employers With Greater Leverage to Challenge Collective Actions and Limit Exposure

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

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Seventh Circuit Decision Rewrites the Rules for Collective Actions

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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

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Continued Evolution in the Standards for Conditional Certification of FLSA and ADEA Claims

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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

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Court raises the bar for plaintiffs seeking to certify collective actions under FLSA, ADEA

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

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New York Federal Court Finds That A Common Policy Or Plan Is Still Critical To ADEA Collective Actions

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In Rusis, et al. v. Int’l Bus. Machines Corp., No. 18 Civ. 8434, 2020 WL 1151322, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 10, 2020), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently declined to...more

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15th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report

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Seyfarth Synopsis: At 852 pages, Seyfarth’s 15th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 1,453 rulings and is our most comprehensive Report ever. ...more

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The Story Behind Class Certification Statistics In 2016 And What It Means For Employers

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In the third post of our series on workplace class action issues, this blog posting focuses on the statistical study of class certification rulings throughout the Unites States in 2016. Not unlike real estate, location – in...more

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The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - December 2013

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This month we look at part two of our three part series on Class Actions. In part two, Robert Rachal, Page Griffin and Madeline Chimento Rea address Wal-Mart's Rule 23(b) principles, including some defenses to plaintiffs' use...more

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