JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Raises Fee Award Hurdle in Coupon Class Action Settlements

Ninth Circuit decision prohibits use of lodestar-only methodology to calculate a fee award for class action settlements involving coupons. The decision contemplates coupon class action settlements ...
WV MetroNews

Supreme Court is asked to halt class certification for vaccine exemption cases

More than 570 families around the state so far have sought and received religious exemptions to school vaccination laws.
Reuters

9th Circuit decertifies tuna price-fixing classes, clamps down on uninjured class members

Antitrust class action plaintiffs won a battle on Tuesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Olean Wholesale Grocery Co-op Inc v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC(2021 WL 1257845) that three ...
JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Upholds Class Action Waiver, Rejects D.R. Horton

In a development as incongruously surprising as Lady Gaga becoming President, the Ninth Circuit has enforced a class action waiver. Richards v. Ernst & Young, Case No. 17530 (August 21, 2013). On its ...
Reuters

En banc 9th Circuit takes up certification of classes with uninjured plaintiffs

(Reuters) - The en banc 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals intends to clarify whether the federal rules for class action litigation preclude the certification of class actions in which more than a ...