Employment Litigation, Class Members, Putative Class Actions

Class Action & MDL Roundup 2024 Q4 – We Give You the Benefit of the Bargain

Alston & Bird on 3/28/2025

Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the fourth quarter of 2024. In this edition, an overdue audiobook suit is shelved, an old case gets new reps and new...more

Ninth Circuit Reverses Class Certification Order Because Liability Issues, Not Merely Damages, Were Individualized

Robinson+Cole Class Actions Insider on 7/11/2022

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed an issue that tends to arise frequently in class certification motion practice: how trial courts should apply the predominance requirement where appellate decisions have said that the need...more

Two Circuit Courts of Appeals Consider Jurisdiction Over Non-Forum Class Members

Polsinelli on 4/10/2020

The Seventh Circuit and District of Columbia Circuit Courts of Appeals recently considered an issue that has been debated by class action lawyers on both sides of the “v” for several years: whether the Supreme Court’s...more

Appeals Court Says No FLSA Notice for Employees Who Agree to Arbitrate

Foley & Lardner LLP on 2/25/2020

On January 24, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit announced a new standard by which a district court should evaluate whether notice of an FLSA collective action should be sent to employees who may be...more

Judge Refuses To Dismiss Domino’s Collective Action Without Seeing Settlement Agreement

FordHarrison on 6/27/2019

On May 17, 2019, Judge Renee Marie Bumb of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey rejected the parties’ request to dismiss a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) lawsuit without the Judge’s review of the...more

New York’s Highest Court: Pre-Certification Settlements Require Classwide Notice

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/14/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The New York Court of Appeals holds that the state’s class action rules require notice of settlements to be sent to putative class members – even though no class has been certified....more

D.C. Circuit Finds That Absent Class Members May Intervene On Appeal To Pursue Rule 23(f) Petition Abandoned By Class...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/25/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: In Harrington v. Sessions, No. 15-8009, No. 16-5285 & No. 16-5286 (D.C. Cir. July 21, 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that absent class members may intervene in an appellate...more

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