Excluding Justices Thomas and Alito,  SCOTUS this week not surprisingly concluded that statistical proof can be used in class actions to...

The headline is the view presented in an October 31, 2014 post by Paul Karlsgodt at the ClassActionBlawg.com. The point he makes in...

Science and law meet in a new law school class (at UMKC) focused on the NFL concussion litigation. Too bad its not an online course. The...

The litigation spin wars continue to increase in intensity and volume. News of more spin arrived through an October 15, 2014 post at...

Litigation today is global. Litigation also is like jello –  push in one place, and things happen in other places. The point is...

This afternoon, Xfinity’s “business class” Internet service has failed – yet again – in Chicago’s River North. These failures need to...

The unsolved problem of conflicts between class members is amply illustrated by lawyers arguing back and forth about the “settlement”...

The Class Action blog has more details, as does SCOTUSBLOG. #ClassActions

Decisions are out, and Canada’s Supreme Court declined to follow SCOTUS’ rulings on indirect claimant antitrust class actions, and on...

Potential criminal charges certainly can be a game changer. Consider, for example, the new Flying J class action settlement in which it...

A few words on a class action settlement scam. In this instance, the settlement relates to the much talked about "sticking" of...

Vanessa Blum penned a useful summary article for the Recorder regarding food mislabeling claims pending in the Northern District of...

Change continues in the global world of litigation. ClassActionBlawg is reporting a plaintiff’s verdict (albeit small) in a class action...

New developments in South African class action law are covered here via a link to other coverage. #ClassActions

What should a federal district judge do when when only about 1 percent ($41,510 out of $4 million) was claimed from a class action...

A decade or more ago, product liability and antitrust lawyers realized and wrote about the reality that conflicts between various...

Class actions in Europe. Not so long ago, the statement was considered an oxymoron. Today, however, class actions in Europe are growing,...

Amazing that claims involving national markets and tens of billions of dollars are kept under seal for five years. But, last week, the ...

Sometimes it’s obvious a mistake has been made by a vendor – e.g. a free overseas airplane ticket at a price of only 4 frequent flyer...

Some say that expiring gift cards are one of the best scams created by financial engineers. But, a judge here in Chicago just certified a...