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 ...

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and class definitions. Every class action complaint contains a proposed class definition. It is an indispensable piece of the landscape, just like the ...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - In almost every federal appellate circuit in the U.S., class action plaintiffs who try to premise their class definition on a defendant’s liability will be bounced out of court ...

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