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Federal Court Rejects Class Action on 23(a) Grounds

By Sean Wajert on September 30, 2015
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products

A federal court in Massachusetts federal court recently denied class certification to consumers who claimed their wood-plastic composite decks were de…
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Long-lasting Lipstick Class Kissed Off

By Sean Wajert on May 19, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products

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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TCPA Class Rejected on Defendant’s Motion

By Sean Wajert on April 16, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud

Readers may know that there is a fair amount of litigation alleging violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. What’s interesting about this …
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Federal Court Rejects Copycat Class Action

By Sean Wajert on February 17, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Products

A California federal court declined to certify a putative class of consumers in a suit accusing defendant of marketing defective dryers. See Martin M…
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Another Plaintiff Fails to Obtain Class Certification for Claims About Products Not Actually Purchased

By Sean Wajert on June 18, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage

We’ve posted before about the curious phenomenon of plaintiffs suing about the labeling on a product they never even purchased. Recently class certifi…
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Class Denied in Credit Card Claim

By Sean Wajert on February 6, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products

A federal court in California last week denied certification of a proposed class of Nike store customers. Gormley v. Nike Inc., No. C-11-893-SI, (N.D.
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Class Certification Denied in Plant Explosion Case

By Sean Wajert on December 20, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

A Massachusetts federal court last week declined to certify a class in a suit against chemical company Ashland Inc., in a dispute over a factory explo…
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Ninth Circuit Applies Dukes

By Sean Wajert on September 26, 2011
Posted in Articles, Class Action

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 Microwave Popcorn Litigation

By Sean Wajert on September 2, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Food and Beverage, Toxic Tort

A federal court has denied class certification in a proposed consumer fraud class action arising from the sale of microwave popcorn with artificial bu…
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Class Action Motion Rejected in Human Tissue MDL

By Sean Wajert on March 12, 2010
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Toxic Tort

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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