JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Raises Fee Award Hurdle in Coupon Class Action Settlements

Ninth Circuit decision prohibits use of lodestar-only methodology to calculate a fee award for class action settlements involving coupons. The decision contemplates coupon class action settlements ...
Law

Class Action Waivers in FINRA Employee Arbitrations: Is a Circuit Split on the Horizon?

We may soon see a circuit split on the issue of class action waivers in FINRA employee arbitrations. In 2015, the Second Circuit held that FINRA firms may use class action waivers to bypass FINRA rule ...
Reuters

9th Circuit decertifies tuna price-fixing classes, clamps down on uninjured class members

Antitrust class action plaintiffs won a battle on Tuesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Olean Wholesale Grocery Co-op Inc v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC(2021 WL 1257845) that three ...
JD Supra

ERISA Litigation Roundup: Ninth Circuit Partially Reverses Dismissal of Two Proposed Class Actions

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially reversed the dismissal of two proposed class actions alleging mismanagement of separate 401(k) plans in violation of ERISA. In Davis v.