In their motion for class certification, the plaintiffs proposed a series of classes ranging in size from 3,223 members to 57,982 members. A Delaware federal court has denied a motion for class ...

A class certification ruling is always subject to challenge if the class representative does not prove the necessary elements of class certification. On July 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

There is an abiding myth among practitioners in the plaintiffs’ class action bar—regularly rejected but repeated by rote—that affirmative defenses are irrelevant to class certification. For example, ...

The efficiency of the US class action regime hinges upon a core procedural mechanism: the class representative. By permitting a large group of plaintiffs with typically modest claims to rely on a ...