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In too many settlements, the same lawyers who rail against deceptive marketing tactics use deceptive settlement provisions to unfairly appropriate...
This blog post was published when the Center for Class Action Fairness was a project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute....
Academics don’t often have the opportunity to publish an article opining on the correctness of a pending appeal, but our...
Imagine a family dinner table where Dad is deciding how large a piece of pie each of his three children...
The too-common scam goes like this. Trial lawyers bring a class action against a business, alleging unfair charges or false...
Earlier this week the Center for Class Action Fairness filed a motion to intervene and seek disgorgement from for-profit “professional...
A plaintiffs’ attorney and an insurance executive have created a business, Risk Settlements, that offers a “post-lawsuit settlement insurance product...
This time, the good guys finished first. On August 10, the Seventh Circuit issued its opinion in In Re: Walgreen...
This blog post was previously published on the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Open Market Blog. I really only want to talk...
Today, the Center for Class Action Fairness petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging an abusive class...
We do not contend that a court can never award such a generous hourly rate. But the Seventh Circuit has...
For years, parties have used cy pres—the practice of giving settlement money to charity instead of the class—in abusive ways....