The class action case is In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, No. 10-2179.
The Supreme Court threw out the case, saying Rule 23 governing class actions requires a case to be capable of delivering classwide damages.
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How can one define the appropriate benchmark asset-class in the case of a new drug for a rare disease?
The suit, now a class-action case, is seeking to reform the tactic, which is legal under a 1968 Supreme Court decision.
Stoia added that in some cases, federal courts can get backed up as much as four or five years before they hand down a decision on a class-action case.
On June 20, a federal judge in California will consider whether to grant the case class-action status, which would then enable it to include many thousands of current and former NCAA athletes.
That happened today when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a controversial class action employment case to proceed against Wal-Mart despite the bitter objections, not just of the 930, 000-employee retailer but five judges including Chief Justice Alex Kozinski.
Two years after the bill was signed into law, lawyers and judicial experts are taking stock of the legislation, particularly as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in on the Wal-Mart sex discrimination class-action case, ruling that several current and former employees can represent all women taking action against the company.
Two years after the bill was signed into law, lawyers and judicial experts are taking stock of the legislation, particularly as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in on the Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) sex discrimination class-action case, ruling that several current and former employees can represent all women taking action against the company.
It's not a case of class or family or education or money or race, it's a matter of class, family, education, money and race.
Critics including the NYAG in this case say class-action firms spend far too much time reviewing documents, knowing they can submit the hours run up by low-paid contract attorneys at a substantial markup.
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"We are going to keep laying out her forward-looking ideas for New York's middle class and making the case that she is the only candidate in the race with an actual record of getting things done, " Mr. Morey said.
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The plaintiff, Dmitriy Shirokov, is seeking to make the case a class action on behalf of 4, 577 people who, like Shirokov, received threatening letters for having allegedly downloaded copies of Far Cry, an action-adventure movie originally released in Canada in the summer of 2007 and in the U.S. in December 2008.
This silly hypothetical would be analogous to our adjudicating or mediating the class action claims in this case.
This case was a class action on behalf of borrowers who discharged their debts in bankruptcy but were still shown to be in default on their credit reports.
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Sahlman holds 30 sessions in his course and in 19 of them he invites the case protagonists to class so students get a chance to ask them questions.
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The Keepseagle case was granted class-action status in 2001.
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In the BA case, judges rejected class-action treatment because of an inherent conflict among the potential plaintiffs.
But what the police class as a low-risk case is no less painful for family and friends left behind.
In that case plaintiffs created a class of more than 1 million female Wal-Mart employees who theoretically all suffered some measure of job discrimination.
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Then Booth's categories, which reflect wealth (and, in the case of the lowest class, morality) must be aligned with the census categories, which record socio-economic status.
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Federal courts must consider the laws of every state a case might touch, complicating class actions like this.
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In any case, the world-class agriculture in the delta employs advanced seed technology and chemical fertilisers, and does not depend on river-borne sediment of negligible nutrient value.
In the case of a newer drug class called biologics, the cost could be even higher, as they are highly complex large-molecule medicines that cannot be easily produced.
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In addition, recent federal court rulings limited damage settlements in the case, relegating plaintiffs to class-action remedies in the federal court system rather than by jury in the state courts.
In that case the court rejected a class action on behalf of millions of female Wal-Mart employees, saying the differences among them made it impossible for a single jury to decide whether Wal-Mart had discriminated against women.
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The retailer denies it discriminated against women and says the case should not be granted class-action status because the plaintiffs' claims are too varied to proceed together, making it difficult for the company to mount a defense in a single case.
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He, much like his taxation doppelganger in Romney promised middle class tax relief, though in his case he proposed doing the impossible whereby he would try to fleece top earners even more than at present in order to close the deficit.
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That typically happens as soon as a case is filed, and then again after the court certifies it as a class action and the defense requires the plaintiffs to supply facts supporting their case.
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