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New Jersey Law Journal

Special Master Probing Delays in Health Net Class Settlement Payout

Administration of a $215 million class action settlement with a health insurer is under a microscope as a special master investigates delays in payments to class members.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

State Class Actions 2013 And Call to Repeal CPLR §901(b)

Thomas A. Dickerson and Leonard B. Austin, associate justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department, write: The positive trend in the receptivity of New York courts in making our class action statute more readily available to groups of litigants continued in 2013. In addition, it is time for the Legislature to consider shedding the unnecessary and vestigial CPLR §901(b) so as to make our class action statute as modern and relevant as those of most other states.
13 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Class Counsel Clumsiness No Bar To Certification of Junk-Fax Suit

A federal judge in Camden has certified a junk-fax class-action suit despite objections that class counsel acted unethically in obtaining information about potential plaintiffs and soliciting their participation.
5 minute read

The Recorder

First District Gives Plaintiffs Lawyers Second Bite at Fee Request

4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Plaintiffs Lawyers in Cobb EMC Litigation Seek $29 Million in Fees

Lawyers for the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the Cobb Electric Membership Corp. have asked for a total of $29.4 million in fees for their work that led to the $100 million settlement.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Shareholder Claims Proceed Against Nasdaq Over Facebook IPO

Shareholder claims against Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. over Facebook Inc.'s botched IPO will move forward after a federal judge found that the exchange was not immune from liability over the technical glitches that occurred that day.
3 minute read

Law.com

Name Plaintiff in No-Poach Case Killed by Sheriff's Deputy

3 minute read

National Law Journal

Circuit Tosses Attorney Fees Award in Prius Litigation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has again struck down an award of attorney fees in a class action settlement, this time over allegedly defective headlights in Toyota Prius vehicles.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Do Class Actions Benefit Class Members?

It is becoming the battle of dueling studies from the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on arbitration vs. class action lawsuits.
5 minute read

Law.com

Suit Invokes Right of Publicity Against JustMugShots.com

A consumer fraud lawsuit filed in California asserts that JustMugShots.com Corp. illegally extorts a $199 fee from individuals whose mug shots it posts online within hours of their arrests.
3 minute read

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