Class actions (Civil procedure)
Reconsidering Indirect-Purchaser Class Actions
... Few issues have proven more vexing to private antitrust enforcement than those related to indirect-purchaser class actions. The current dual system of enforcement—federal and state—exacerbates the ...
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Why Amendments to Rule 23 Are Not Enough: A Case for the Federalization of Class Actions
... certification of settlement classes which the United States Supreme Court ultimately found to be unfair, have highlighted the need for reform. Attempting to address the problems raised by cases like these, the United ...
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CLASS ACTIONS FIVE YEARS LATER: A GUIDE FOR LEGAL ASSISTANTS
... liability class actions, particularly in recent ...a class action). U.S. courts have become very concerned that such actions have the potential to bog down in the many individual issues that ...
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Internal and External Discipline Following Securities Class Actions
... securities class actions should increase the likelihood of a ‘disci- plinary’ ...securities class action could evidence agency ...securities class action in year t should be more likely to ...
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The Price of Pay to Play in Securities Class Actions
... of class counsel, with some suggesting that the problem is more theoretical than ...in class actions, who end up paying greater attorney fees out of their ...
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Manageability under the Proposed Uniform Class Actions Act
... Manageability under the Proposed Uniform Class Actions Act SMU Law Review Volume 31 | Issue 3 Article 4 1977 Manageability under the Proposed Uniform Class Actions Act Storrow Moss Gordon Follow this[.] ...
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Civil Litigation Developments: Class Actions Alleging Manipulation
... CEA class actions, the following two trends ...approved class certification, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss or denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment, the parties quickly become ...
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Resolving Dilemmas in Canadian Class Actions by Reconsidering Private Law Principles
... Building on a descriptive analysis of current and precedential case law from Canada and the United Kingdom, the main project is to offer a view of the private law that best accounts for how to understand its function, ...
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The Bromberg Balance: Proper Portfolio Monitoring Agreements in Securities Class Actions
... The Bromberg Balance Proper Portfolio Monitoring Agreements in Securities Class Actions SMU Law Review Volume 68 | Issue 3 Article 17 2015 The Bromberg Balance Proper Portfolio Monitoring Agreements i[.] ...
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Raising the Roof on Community Housing for People with Disabilities: Class Actions in Canada
... institution-based class actions have at times provided stunning, but essentially pyrrhic, legal victories that ultimately failed to have any meaningful impact on the lives of the plaintiffs they were ...
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Can Private Class Actions Enforce Economic Regulations? Do They? Should They?
... enforcement class actions, we need to know not only the rate of claiming, relative to violations, and the proportions of false negatives and false positives; we need also to know the direct and indirect ...
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Mootness Doctrine in Class Actions: United States Parole Commission v Geraghty, The
... Mootness Doctrine in Class Actions United States Parole Commission v Geraghty, The SMU Law Review Volume 34 | Issue 4 Article 7 1980 Mootness Doctrine in Class Actions United States Parole Commission[.] ...
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Securities Fraud Class Actions: Courts to Consider Price Impact Evidence at Class Certification Stage
... securities class actions, the Basic presumption produces a number of serious and harmful ...Such class actions, they say, allow plaintiffs to extort large settlements from defendants for ...
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COMMENTARY. Class Actions in Italy: Recent Developments JONES DAY
... Italian class actions to collect a large number of ...system, class actions are automati- cally participated in by a large number of right holders ...whole class, except those who opt ...
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What Makes Securities Class Actions with Accounting Allegations Different?
... In the class actions we studied, all but one of the non-accounting cases settled for $200 million or less from 2005 through 2010. In contrast, more than 5 percent of accounting cases settled for amounts in ...
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Setting Attorneys Fees in Securities Class Actions: An Empirical Assessment
... We have used publicly available court documents to study the role that fee agreements play in the process of setting attorneys’ fees in class actions brought under the PSLRA. Our work is preliminary, ...
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Consumer Law, Class Actions, and the Common Law
... a class attorney have greatly troubled the Supreme ...mandatory class actions, which require a de facto surrender of the due process-based formalities of Rule ...Mandatory-Litigation Class ...
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Class actions en class settlements in het Amerikaanse financieel recht
... om class actions waarin de eisende partij probeert op te treden voor een groep van honderden of duizenden gedupeerde ...de class action is bedoeld als efficiënte belangenvertegenwoordiging, ook voor ...
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Securities Class Actions and Bankrupt Companies
... First, securities class actions involving bankrupt compa- nies ("bankruptcy cases") are more likely to have actual merit than securities class actions involving compan[r] ...
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Novel Approach to Mass Tort Class Actions: The Billion Dollar Settlement in the Sulzer Artificial Hip and Knee Litigation: A Symposium
... over class actions will no doubt continue for many ...to class actions but also in the area of mass tort claims–in the context of the somewhat unique approach taken in the Sulzer Hip ...
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