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New Life for Class Arbitration, or Strategic Mistake in an Isolated Case?

Photo of Paul KarlsgodtBy Paul Karlsgodt on Posted in Arbitration, Class Action Trends
Editors’ Note:  This post originally appeared in Paul’s blog, www.classactionblawg.com, and is reprinted with permission.  For additional insights into the Oxford Health Decision, please see John Lewis’s commentary at the BakerHosetler Employment Class Action Blog. The Supreme Court issued its decision today in the first of two arbitration-related class action cases on the 2012-13 docket.  Today’s decision bucks what had been a … Continue Reading

Can Subsequent Wal-Mart Class Actions Survive? Texas Federal Court Says “No”

By Jeanine Conley on Posted in Class Action Tolling, Class Action Trends
On October 28, 2011, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011) denying class certification to plaintiffs seeking to represent a group of over 1.5 million women in a gender discrimination action against Wal-Mart, Stephanie Odle and six other named plaintiffs filed another action … Continue Reading
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