Arbitration Class Action Litigation Class Arbitration First Circuit Decisions Litigation US District Court - Mass US District Court - New Hampshire
February 13, 2026 by Cameron Goodwin
A review of the year’s most impactful arbitration-related rulings in the First Circuit Federal courts within the First Circuit issued numerous decisions in 2025 that reflect important trends for the enforceability of arbitration provisions and the arbitration process generally. These decisions include the enforceability of online agreements, the status of court proceedings while arbitration is […]
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Antitrust Class Actions First Circuit Decisions US District Court - Mass US District Court - New Hampshire
December 7, 2017 / March 3, 2026 by Melanie Conroy
As various contributors to this blog have noted (here, here, and here), a divided panel of the First Circuit adopted a “loose” approach to the ascertainability requirement in In re Nexium Antitrust Litigation. Specifically, while acknowledging that “the definition of [a] class must be ‘definite,’” the majority concluded that this requirement could be satisfied by […]
Class Action Fairness Act US District Court - New Hampshire
December 4, 2016 / January 11, 2023 by Melanie Conroy
On November 30th, in Brown v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., United States District Judge Joseph Laplante of the District of New Hampshire denied plaintiffs’ motion to remand two related class action lawsuits based on allegations that defendants had caused a release of toxic chemicals from a manufacturing plant that contaminated nearby wells and water supplies. […]
