On Oct. 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided the following issue of first impression: Whether, when assessing the pleading adequacy of a securities class action complaint's ...

In Krasner v. Cedar Realty Trust, et al., — F.4th –, 2023 WL 7517017 (2d Cir. Nov. 14, 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether the securities-related exception to ...

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...

If you really want to take full control of the exceptions you pass to your clients, you can write your own Exception class. Here's how to do that, complete with support for additional properties. If ...

Takeaway: Federal Rule 23 authorizes representative litigation in the form of class actions that satisfy its various requirements. The policy underlying the rule is efficiency. For example, the ...

Since its enactment in 2005, the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) has provided defendants with additional opportunities to remove state-law claims to federal court. Among other things, the statute ...

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