A federal judge in Oklahoma earlier this week denied class certification to homeowners living near a research facility, holding that individual issues
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Another Artificial All Natural Class Action Rejected
We have posted before about the plaintiffs’ bar ongoing war on innocuous product labels, especially the popular “natural” claims –seeking t…
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Court of Appeals Addresses Class-wide Arbitration Issue
Our loyal readers know that the decision whether a matter gets sent to arbitration, as opposed to being adjudicated through traditional litigation, ca…
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Class Certification Reversed in Unfair Trade Practices Case
A Florida appeals court recently decertified a class action with an unusual theory: a car maker who allegedly used headlights that can be too easily s…
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Class Plaintiffs Ordered to Brief Damages Theory Under Comcast
We have posted about the impact of Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, 133 S. Ct. 1426, 1435 (2013). As the Supreme Court reemphasized in Comcast, in order for …
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Long-lasting Lipstick Class Kissed Off
A federal court has rejected a proposed class of plaintiffs who alleged that they purchased deceptively labeled lipstick and foundation, in part becau…
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Comcast Requirement of Class-wide Damages Dooms Class
A California federal court has denied class certification to a putative class of consumers who bought food products marketed as healthy, which alleged…
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