Those are topics of Justifying Class Action Limits: Parsing the Debates over Ascertainability and Cy Pres by law prof Robert Bone. Here's the abstract: The federal class action has lost its way. It was created about fifty years ago in a major revision to Rule 23 that envisioned a functional aggregation device aimed at promoting litigation efficiency […]
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Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Bankers Association, American Financial Services Association, Consumer Bankers Association, Financial Services Roundtable, and a coalition of associations located throughout Texas filed a legal challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s anti-arbitration rule. The complaint alleges that the rule violates the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act because the CFPB […]
by Paul Alan Levy In a motion to quash filed today, three Facebook users are challenging search warrants issued by federal prosecutors seeking to rummage through accounts in which they supported protests against the inauguration of Donald Trump on the weekend of January 20. One of the accounts may be the Facebook analogue of the […]
In a survey of nearly 1,700 vehicles for sale at eight CarMax locations – four in Massachusetts, two in California, and two in Connecticut – more than one in four vehicles (27 percent) were found to contain unrepaired safety recalls. The survey is described in a report released today by Consumers for Auto Reliability and […]
by Jeff Sovern The Hill has a story about the forthcoming speech. Excerpt from the story: President Trump plans to give a speech at the White House next week on his efforts to roll back federal regulations. “The President will be making remarks in the morning highlighting his administration’s efforts to eliminate excessive, job-killing […]
A new report examines the use of arbitration agreements in the workplace by the top 100 largest domestic United States companies, as ranked by Fortune magazine. The key finding: 80 of the top 100 largest companies in America, including subsidiaries or related affiliates, have used arbitration agreements in connection with workplace-related disputes since 2010. Of […]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray said today that the three credit ratings agencies — Equifax, Trans Union, and Experian — are going to be getting embedded regulators to prevent future breaches of private information. CNBC has the story, here.
Quoting from the CFPB's press release issued yesterday: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the results of a first-of-its-kind national survey on the financial well-being of U.S. consumers that showed that more than 40 percent of U.S. adults struggle to make ends meet. The survey provides measurements and insights on the financial well-being of specific […]
The National Law Journal has published this debate/discussion between corporate litigator (and sometimes lawyer for the Chamber of Commerce lawyer) Andy Pincus and this blog's Deepak Gupta. (Possibly behind a paywall.)
In Class Actions in the Era of Trump: Trends and Developments in Class Certification and Related Issues, law profs Jack Coffee and Alexi Lahav just that. Here's the abstract: In this memorandum prepared for the Annual ABA National Institute on Class Actions, Professors Coffee and Lahav review and assess developments in class certification over recent years, […]