During the past decade or so the banking industry has been subjected to an avalanche of class actions challenging a wide array of practices pertaining to the industry's consumer loan and deposit ...

This essay is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. March 2007 On February 18, 2005, President George W. Bush signed into law the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of 2005,[1] the most ...

The Fairness in Class Action Act takes several steps to make these orders tougher for class action plaintiffs to get—some of the key ones are explained here. Mandating Ascertainability.

More Americans than ever are becoming eligible for a class action payout—but the money is going to a small, dedicated group ...

Krispy Kreme spent about $3 million on data breach remediation and saw a revenue loss of about $11 million due to the breach, ...

Within weeks of being sworn in to his second term, President George W. Bush signed the Class Action Fairness Act. The new law, which breezed through both houses of Congress, was viewed as a key ...

If this bill passes, it would take away citizens’ rights to form a class and take on Goliath corporations. If this bill passes, ...

As is pretty typical in class action cases, the attorneys representing the customers suing AT&T can claim up to a third of the settlement totals, raking in upwards of $59 million split amongst the ...

On February 18 2005, Congress enacted the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), P.L. No. 109-2 (28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(d), 1453, and 1711 – 1715). In enacting the CAFA, Congress sought to protect ...