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Class Action & MDL Roundup | 2025 Q1 – Our Terms Define Class

Alston & Bird on 6/26/2025

Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2025. In this edition, two UK actions fail to clear a low bar, a movie isn’t a video, and spam isn’t...more

Class Action & MDL Roundup 2024 Q1 – Reaching Across the Pond

Alston & Bird on 7/3/2024

Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2024. In this edition, UK High Court weighs in on information asymmetry, debit is better than credit,...more

What Is the Future for Opt-Out Class Actions in the UK After Lloyd v Google?

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/19/2022

Takeaways - The U.K. Supreme Court, in its much-anticipated decision in Lloyd v Google, held that “opt-out” representative (class) actions cannot proceed unless the plaintiff proves material damage and shows that each class...more

U.K. Supreme Court Finds Data Protection Representative (I.e., Class) Action Cannot Be Pursued Against Google

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/30/2021

On November 10, the United Kingdom (U.K.) Supreme Court issued a decision in Lloyd v. Google LLC, UKSC2019/0213 (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), recognizing that the loss of control of personal data by consumers alone...more

Scanning the Class and Collective Action Horizon

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/15/2021

While group litigation and collective actions have traditionally been more difficult to pursue in the UK than in the U.S., changes to UK civil procedure rules and societal attitudes towards group ligation means that these...more

English Law Schemes of Arrangement: Class Composition

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 8/24/2016

Having received the sanction of antitrust regulators in Europe, the U.S., China and South Africa, the planned merger of brewing giants AB InBev and SABMiller was scrutinised this week by the High Court in London on a topic...more