Antitrust Class Actions First Circuit Decisions US District Court - Mass US District Court - New Hampshire
December 7, 2017 / February 26, 2019 by Josh Dunlap
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 […]
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Class Action Fairness Act US District Court - New Hampshire
December 4, 2016 / January 11, 2023 by Don Frederico
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. […]
