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Legal ethics issues affecting funding of class actions, how funding affects ability to bring class actions and implications for settlement values
By Amanda Bronstad | April 14, 2017
In a case closely watched by institutional investors, CalPERS is hoping to reverse the Second Circuit and extend the window for opt-out suits.
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By Celia Ampel | April 14, 2017
The settlement fund will help complete construction projects to secure investors' immigration status.
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By C. Ryan Barber | April 13, 2017
The question hanging over the CFPB's arbitration rule—a proposal that drew tens of thousands of comments from consumer and business advocates—is less now about the finer points of the final rule than about whether the regulations will ever see the light of day at all. For the agency, the threat of a congressional override is not abstract. Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate proposed bills to tear up the CFPB's prepaid card rule.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 12, 2017
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer awarded the Seattle plaintiffs firm $2.3 million, a small fraction of its request.
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By Miriam Rozen | April 12, 2017
Here's a political riddle: What does Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have in common with Democratic-leaning plaintiff lawyers, including Lisa Blue, Mikal Watts, Bob Hilliard and Wayne Fisher?
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By Greg Land | April 12, 2017
In what could have been a one-page per curiam ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, two panel members decided to digress.
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By Jenna Greene | April 10, 2017
Say ouch. Kimberly-Clark Corp. and spin-off Halyard Health Inc. were hit with a $454 million fraud verdict in Los Angeles federal court on Friday in a lawsuit over surgical gowns that allegedly failed to protect medical personnel from infection.
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By Robert Storace | April 7, 2017
After years of litigating a $100 million class action against Anthem Inc. by 87,000 former employees and retirees of the state of Connecticut, Adam Levin found himself anxiously awaiting the Connecticut Supreme Court's ruling on March 31.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 6, 2017
A ruling Thursday from the California Supreme Court means an arbitration exemption that's unpopular with corporate defendants will live another day.
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By Celia Ampel | April 6, 2017
An appeals court ruling and the first-ever class certification decision under the Medicare Secondary Payer law paves the way for potentially huge recoveries.
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