Consumer Class Actions New Hampshire Decisions
August 22, 2012 / January 4, 2023 by mindgrub
Yesterday, the New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed the certification of a class of purchasers of “Light” cigarettes in a case alleging that Philip Morris USA, Inc. (Philip Morris), by using...
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August 2, 2012 / February 26, 2019 by mindgrub
Last week, United States District Court Judge George Singal granted class certification to a group of former employees of automobile part manufacturer Formed Fiber Technologies, LLC, who all...
Employment Class Actions US District Court - Mass
August 1, 2012 / February 26, 2019 by mindgrub
Last week, in Abdallah v. Bain Capital LLC, United States District Judge Joseph L. Tauro of the District of Massachusetts dismissed a putative class action lawsuit against Bain Capital LLC b...
Class Action Settlements Consumer Class Actions First Circuit Decisions
July 28, 2012 / January 4, 2023 by mindgrub
In an opinion authored by Chief Justice Sandra Lynch that could, and should, find its way into civil procedure casebooks, the First Circuit charted a course through the complexities of the E...
Class Action Settlements
July 21, 2012 / January 4, 2023 by mindgrub
In an April 30th post, we described the First Circuit's recent decision in In re: Lupron Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, in which the court for the first time articulated the stand...
July 8, 2012 / January 4, 2023 by mindgrub
In 2007 and 2008, the United States Supreme Court issued landmark decisions clarifying the pleading standards that must be met for a complaint to survive a motion to dismiss under Fed. R. Ci...
Employment Class Actions Legislation
June 25, 2012 / February 26, 2019 by mindgrub
Last week, on the one-year anniversary of Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes, 131 S.Ct. 2541 (2011), a group of Democratic lawmakers proposed companion House and Senate bills that would repeal Dukes’...
Arbitration Class Arbitration Employment Class Actions
June 11, 2012 / January 4, 2023 by mindgrub
As previously reported, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will be reviewing the continued vitality of its decision in Feeney v. Dell Inc. (Feeney I), governing the enforceability of c...
Arbitration Consumer Class Actions Massachusetts Decisions
May 9, 2012 / January 4, 2023 by mindgrub
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to re-review a case involving the enforceability of class action waivers in arbitration provisions in light of last term's United States S...
Consumer Class Actions First Circuit Decisions
May 8, 2012 / January 4, 2023 by mindgrub
In a case that sheds some light on how the court handles allegations of subject matter jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act, and how it applies the heightened pleading standards...
