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.
Judges in 11 of 13 other cases have rejected similar attempts to put together a class that would almost certainly force cigarette makers into a multibillion-dollar settlement.
Just last week we read at the Point of Law blog and elsewhere about a Third Circuit ruling which rejected an absurd cy presdistribution in an antitrust class action settlement.
Glen Bolger, a consultant for Republican Senate candidates, points out that those white, working-class voters are McCain's best shot at wooing Democrats because they have already rejected Obama once.
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District yesterday rejected complaints that the settlement was unfair to the ostensible clients of Milberg and other big class-action firms.