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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a significant ruling on the availability of class-wide

The Ninth Circuit recently issued a decision encompassing a medley of class action issues. In Wang v.

In Lewis v. City of Chicago, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that plaintiffs alleged a cognizable

Wage and hour class and collective actions targeting hospitals and other healthcare employers have proliferated

On April 26, 2010, in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Nos. 04-16688 and 04-16720, the full Ninth Circuit Court of

The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down its long-awaited ruling in Stolt-Nielsen S. A. v. Animalfeeds

On July 30, 2009, in a case with significant implications for wage and hour class actions, the Massachusetts

In Arias v. Superior Court (Angelo Dairy)1 (2009) the California Supreme Court held that an "aggrieved

On March 10, 2009, the California Second District Court of Appeal in Franco v. Athens Disposal Company,

The California Court of Appeal recently affirmed an employer's right to settle a putative class member's