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.

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 ...

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 created a new basis for federal diversity jurisdiction over class action litigation and requires a different amount in controversy for class actions. Linda S ...

Eight months after President Bush signed the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) into law, federal courts have been grappling with the retroactive application of the statute to class actions pending ...

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