First Circuit Decisions
June 23, 2014 / May 17, 2024 by mindgrub
In this cautionary tale authored by Judge Selya, the First Circuit affirmed the district court’s award of summary judgment to defendant Raytheon Company in a putative class action in which P...
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Uncategorized
May 19, 2014 / January 11, 2023 by mindgrub
Not every litigator wants to learn class actions; in fact, most do not. After all, why would anyone want to get mired in the procedural morass of a class action when they could be spending...
Class Action Settlements
February 23, 2014 / January 11, 2023 by mindgrub
To settle or not to settle; that is the question, right? It is asked when you receive the demand letter threatening a class action, when the complaint is filed and served, at the initial sc...
Class Action Fairness Act Supreme Court
January 16, 2014 / February 26, 2019 by mindgrub
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court once again weighed in with a decision regarding class actions, but this time with a twist. In what is a rare event in the class action context, the Court hande...
Attorneys' Fees Class Action Settlements
January 5, 2014 / January 11, 2023 by mindgrub
In an opinion reminiscent of the famous Rolling Stones song, Judge Richard Stearns on December 26th awarded plaintiffs' class counsel fees of $75,959.00 of a requested amount of $450,000 for...
Class Certifications US District Court - Mass
December 19, 2013 / May 17, 2024 by mindgrub
On the heels of his November 14, 2013 order certifying a class of individual consumers and other payors who alleged that defendant pharmaceutical companies engaged in anti-competitive practi...
December 8, 2013 / January 11, 2023 by mindgrub
There comes a time in many class actions when the parties agree to mediate. Like class litigation, the mediation of class actions, whether pre-certification or post-certification, is more c...
December 7, 2013 / February 26, 2019 by mindgrub
There comes a time in many class actions when the parties agree to mediate. It doesn't happen in all cases. The decision whether to settle (the goal of mediation) may be a matter of timing...
November 30, 2013 / January 11, 2023 by mindgrub
On November 14, 2013, Judge William G. Young of the District of Massachusetts entered an order certifying a class of individual consumers and other payors who alleged that anti-competitive p...
Consumer Class Actions US District Court - Mass
September 8, 2013 / January 11, 2023 by mindgrub
The home mortgage crisis of the last several years has spawned its share of new government regulation and litigation. On September 4th, Judge Rya Zobel denied plaintiffs' motion for class c...
