Forum
U.S. Supreme Court
Case Status
Decided
Docket Number
Term
2020 Term
Lower Court Opinion
Questions Presented
1. Whether either Article III or Rule 23 permits a damages class action where the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an injury anything like what the class representative suffered.
2. Whether a punitive damages award that is multiple times greater than an already-substantial ii classwide award of statutory damages, and is orders of magnitude larger than any actual proven injury, violates due process.
Case Updates
U.S. Supreme Court rejects certification of class action where class members lack concrete injury
June 25, 2021
Click here to view the opinion.
U.S. Chamber files coalition merits-stage amicus brief urging Supreme Court to reverse certification of a class action because the named plaintiff's alleged injury is atypical compared to the rest of the putative class members
February 08, 2021
Click here to view the amicus brief filed jointly by the U.S. Chamber and National Federation of Independent Business.
Andrew J. Pincus, Archis A. Parasharami, Daniel E. Jones, and Carmen N. Longoria-Green of Mayer Brown LLP served as co-counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center.
Previously, the U.S. Chamber filed amicus briefs supporting the cert. petition and in the Ninth Circuit at the panel stage.
Cert. granted
December 16, 2020
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 rest of the putative class members
October 08, 2020
Click here to view the Chamber’s amicus brief. Andrew J. Pincus, Archis A. Parasharami, and Daniel E. Jones of Mayer Brown LLP served as co-counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center.
The U.S. Chamber filed previously in the Ninth Circuit at the panel stage.