Fifth Circuit holds that Daubert fully applies to scientific evidence introduced at class-certification stage, vacating certification and remanding for reconsideration of whether...
Fifth Circuit rejects two-step Lusardi approach allowing “conditional certification” of FLSA collective actions, holding that named plaintiffs must affirmatively prove that employees...
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Eleventh Circuit to grant Rule 23(f) petition and decertify class action in “actual cash value” insurance litigation.
Ninth Circuit denies interlocutory review of worker-misclassification class action under California law. The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief opposing this outcome.
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to grant cert and reverse certification of a class action because the named plaintiff's alleged injury is extremely atypical compared to the...
Third Circuit allows worker-misclassification class action to proceed, holding 2-1 that District Court applied overly strict ascertainability standard. The Third Circuit also drew an adverse...
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Third Circuit to hold that Rule 23(c)(4) “issues” classes are not a separate type of class action exempt from Rule 23(b)(3)’s predominance and superiority...
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Second Circuit to grant interlocutory review and decertify insurance class action because individualized questions about each class member's exposure to...
U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to decertify liability-only issues class action against private water utility because individualized injury ...
