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Cy Pres You’ll Read This

Today, Washington Legal Foundation published a short and useful working paper authored by James M. Beck and Rachel B. Weil...

Victory! Redman v. Radioshack

CCAF won a tremendous victory for class members in Redman v. Radioshack, just eleven days after oral argument!...

Redman v. RadioShack, Inc. / oral argument today

As we discussed earlier, class counsel agreed to a settlement over RadioShack credit-card receipt legality that would have paid themselves...

Oetting v. Green Jacobson / Oral argument September 10 in 8th Circuit on cy pres

Bank of America settled a nationwide securities class action in the E.D. Mo. for hundreds of millions of dollars. For...

Opening brief in Redman v. RadioShack

RadioShack committed the sin of printing credit-card receipts with expiration dates on them, which exposed it to possible liability of...

Ninth Circuit win in Apple MagSafe case

Thursday, the Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded for consideration under the appropriate legal standards, and was especially critical of the...

Wasserman on cy pres

University of Pittsburgh Law Professor Rhonda Wasserman has a paper on cy pres forthcoming in the USC Law Review, The...

Opening brief in Pearson v. NBTY, Inc., No. 14-1198 (7th Cir.)

We've appealed: we don't think that the Rule 23(e) and Rule 23(h) fairness inquiries are to be done sequentially. NBTY...

In re Apple MagSafe Power Adapter Litigation oral argument in the Ninth Circuit Tuesday

The settlement was structured to pay the attorneys double their lodestar but make it difficult for class members to make...

Abusive appeal bonds

For all the plaintiffs' bar talks about "access to justice," many trial lawyers will not hesitate to run roughshod over...

Urban Active Fitness class action settlement

One hopes that a class member who received a postcard investigates the unfairness of the settlement and retains qualified counsel...

October 15

Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will announce orders relating to two cert petitions we filed....
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