With 2025 behind us, we wanted to do a deep dive into the Fourth Circuit’s class certification decisions to see what we could learn. And it didn’t disappoint. Last year was an eventful one for the ...

Defense counsel tend to see individualized issues of fact and law when litigating a class action. Plaintiffs counsel, on the other hand, will often look at those same issues and suggest that they ...

The Sixth Circuit concluded a federal judge for the Western District of Tennessee did not abuse its discretion when it certified the class. However, the Third, Fourth, Seventh and Ninth circuits this ...

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 ...

In Cline v. Sunoco, Inc. R&M, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit largely affirmed the federal district court’s rulings certifying a class and awarding damages, and in the process, adopted ...