Settlement, Appeals, 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

Fifth Circuit Securities Litigation Quarterly - Q4 2024

A&O Shearman on 1/10/2025

Welcome to the Q4 2024 edition of A&O Shearman’s Fifth Circuit Securities Litigation Quarterly. As public companies and financial institutions continue to migrate to Texas, our Texas-based securities litigation team continues...more

BCLP’s 2018 Food, Beverage & Supplement Litigation Roundup

BCLP on 4/1/2019

It was another active year in 2018 for class action litigation targeting the food, beverage and supplement industries. A cross-practice team from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has authored a roundup of the most notable...more

New York Court of Appeals Decision Requires Needless Notice of Individual Settlements in Putative Class Actions

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/13/2018

Class actions have dual natures. They start out as only individual cases, but they can become massive, collective cases where the rights of absent parties are adjudicated all at once. In most respects, class certification...more

N.Y. Decision May Hinder Early Class Action Settlements

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/5/2018

The decision of the New York Court of Appeals, in Desrosiers v. Perry Ellis Menswear, LLC., and in Vasquez v. Nat'l Sec. Corp., has created a potential obstacle to early class action settlements in cases filed in New York...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

Contractual Duty to Deal Does Not Equal Antitrust Duty to Deal

McDermott Will & Emery on 8/1/2014

Addressing for the first time whether a patent holder under a contractual duty to deal is also subject to an antitrust duty to deal, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld dismissal of a putative antitrust...more

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