Last week the Eleventh Circuit addressed an issue that many class action practitioners probably haven’t thought much about: whether approval of a class action settlement requires that each class ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to examine whether class certification is automatically barred when the proposed class definition is "fail safe"—or when membership hinges on a case's outcome on ...

Some class action plaintiff lawyers facing individualized liability issues will try to obtain class certification by defining the proposed class in a way that assumes liability. It’s somewhat akin to ...

A federal appeals court handed Argentina a victory Wednesday in its quest to relieve itself of the pressures of debt owed to American hedge funds and others, saying a judge went too far by letting ...

The rise of the global middle class is one of the great economic triumphs of our time, or so we’re told repeatedly. “For the first time, the number of people in the middle class surpasses those living ...