Eastern District of California Judge William B. Shubb certified a class of thousands of former NCAA Division I volunteer coaches who had sued the NCAA for anticompetitive compensation prohibitions. Originally published in...more
Certifying an antitrust class under Rule 23 has become a battle. In the last 20 years, courts have been changing the game around Rule 23 interpretation, and rigorous analysis at class certification has made briefing...more
The Third Circuit recently joined the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits in holding that, where a Daubert challenge is made to the use of expert testimony in support of class certification, the Daubert challenge must be...more