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

By Paul Karlsgodt on June 10, 2013 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

Seventh Circuit Orders Vacatur of Injunction

By Deborah Renner on May 2, 2012 Posted in Class Action Trends, Injunctions

In Thorogood v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 2012 WL 1508226 (7th Cir. May 1, 2012), the Seventh Circuit considered the propriety of an All Writs Act injunction in the face of a copy-cat class action for a “near-frivolous” claim. After detailing the abuse of the class action device by the plaintiffs’ lawyers, the Court nevertheless … Continue Reading