A federal court last week denied class certification in a lawsuit over insect parts allegedly found in baby formula, recognizing that the claims raise
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Ninth Circuit Applies Dukes
The Ninth Circuit issued an interesting class action decision applying several of the key aspects of the recent Supreme Court decision in Wal–Ma…
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Class Certification Denied in Printer Litigation
A federal court recently denied class certification in a case brought on behalf of consumers accusing Epson America Inc. of misrepresenting how its NX…
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Court of Appeals Rejects Medical Monitoring Class Action
The Third Circuit last week affirmed a lower court decision denying class certification in a medical monitoring case alleging vinyl chloride exposures…
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Plaintiffs’ Class Allegations Flattened in Tire Case
A federal court in New York last week denied plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in a case alleging that the run-flat tires on defendant BMW’s …
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Class Action Alleging False Food Ads Rejected
Plaintiffs have failed in a proposed class action against McDonald’s in which they alleged that the food company’s advertising somehow misleads custom…
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Digitek Class Action Denied in MDL
The federal judge in the multidistrict litigation concerning the heart drug Digitek has denied class certification in the MDL’s six remaining class ac…
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Decision to Not Conduct Daubert Inquiry Leads to Class Certification
A federal court recently certified a class of Minnesota building owners in litigation over issues with plumbing systems. See In re: Zurn Pex Plumbing …
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Class Action Motion Rejected in Human Tissue MDL
We have posted before about the interesting Human Tissue litigation. The multidistrict litigation consolidated hundreds of cases filed either by plain…
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State Supreme Court Reverses Class Certification on Predominance Grounds
The Alabama Supreme Court has recently reversed a lower court’s certification of a class of third-party payers of health care services who complained …
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