In 2009, the First Circuit held, as a matter of first impression, that class action settlement agreements may, in appropriate circumstances, include provisions for cy pres distributions. In…
It isn’t complicated. A majority of the Supreme Court holds that, where an expert’s model will not prove damages on a classwide basis, “[q]uestions of individual damage calculations will in…
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