Class Actions & Mass Actions

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Bigger v. Facebook, Inc.

July 3, 2019

U.S. Chamber files merits brief urging Seventh Circuit to vacate class action certification which allowed notice to individuals who had agreed to resolve their disputes by arbitration on an...

Reid v. Doe Run Resources Corp.

June 4, 2019

Eighth Circuit denies interlocutory review and petition for writ of mandamus of district court decision allowing thousands of Peruvian nationals to sue American companies in federal court under...

Muransky v. Godiva Chocolatier, Inc.

May 20, 2019

U.S. Chamber joins coalition brief urging Eleventh Circuit to grant rehearing en banc to consider whether class settlement should have been approved due to lack of named plaintiff’s Article III...

Bigger v. Facebook, Inc.

May 3, 2019

Seventh Circuit grants interlocutory appeal in case concerning notice to class members who are subject to arbitration agreements that preclude class litigation. The Chamber filed an amicus brief...

Harris v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.

April 29, 2019

U.S. Chamber files coalition brief urging Eighth Circuit to reject class certification in disability discrimination cases based on so-called Teamsters method of proof.

Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela

April 24, 2019

Supreme Court limits the ability of the plaintiffs’ bar to construe ambiguous language in a contract to argue for class arbitration—that is, to bring a class action in arbitration, rather than in...

Muransky v. Godiva Chocolatier, Inc.

April 22, 2019

The three-judge panel in this case “sua sponte” issued a revised opinion concerning the Article III concerns the Chamber raised in its amicus brief in support of a petition for rehearing and...

Bigger v. Facebook, Inc.

April 22, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief in support of petition for permission to appeal under Section 1292(b) concerning whether a district court may require that notice of class certification must be...

Mussat v. IQVIA

April 19, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing that a class action defendant must be subject to specific personal jurisdiction with respect to each class member’s claims

Moussouris v. Microsoft Corp.

April 12, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief in support of District Court’s order denying certification of class in employment-discrimination case