POSTED: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 at 1:03 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

It was a closely watched case that came to a dramatic and unexpected conclusion of questionable precedential value. Now attorneys are left pondering what effect, if any, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend will have on class-action certifications.

POSTED: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 at 10:15 am

BY: SYLVIA HSIEH, Dolan Media Newswires

Can an employer, faced with a purported class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act, avoid litigation by immediately offering a settlement to the sole plaintiff before a class is certified?

POSTED: Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 at 10:55 am

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court this week considered whether the Class Action Fairness Act allows plaintiffs to avoid removal to federal court by promising to seek less than the monetary damages threshold.

POSTED: Wednesday, December 26th, 2012 at 10:00 am

BY: Associated Press

A federal judge has approved a $1.4 million class-action settlement between Kentucky landowners and Sprint Communications, which laid fiber-optic cable on railroad rights of way on their property.

POSTED: Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at 2:33 pm

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a broad arbitration clause can implicitly authorize class arbitration.

POSTED: Friday, November 30th, 2012 at 11:22 am

BY: Associated Press

A federal judge in Pittsburgh has approved a class-action settlement for women who say they were denied mortgage insurance just because they were on maternity leave, or pregnant.

POSTED: Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 at 2:40 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

There are plenty of big cases on the docket at the U.S. Supreme Court this term, dealing with issues ranging from search and seizure standards to affirmative action.

POSTED: Thursday, November 15th, 2012 at 2:39 pm

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

Starbucks violated state wage and hour law by allowing shift supervisors to share in its baristas’ tip pools, the 1st Circuit has ruled in affirming a $14 million class award.

POSTED: Thursday, November 8th, 2012 at 12:19 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

If the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court wanted to decide whether the Daubert standard for admitting expert testimony at trial also applies at the class action certification stage, they picked a factually and procedurally messy case as a vehicle for doing so.

POSTED: Friday, October 19th, 2012 at 9:16 am

BY: Associated Press

Aspen Dental Management and the private equity firm that controls it illegally operate dental clinics across the country and engage in aggressive, misleading profit-driven practices that cause patients economic harm, claims a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in New York.

POSTED: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 at 2:32 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

After several U.S. Supreme Court rulings that toughened the standards for bringing class-action claims and boosted companies’ ability to compel arbitration to resolve conflicts, a new focus for litigation has emerged: class arbitration.

POSTED: Monday, September 17th, 2012 at 1:46 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

The increase in class-action litigation challenging labels on certain food products has consumer litigation attorneys taking notice, and laying at least part of the blame on federal regulators.

POSTED: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 at 11:55 am

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a stipulation by a class action plaintiff that damages will be limited to less than the $5 million threshold for federal jurisdiction is enough to defeat a motion to remove the case to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act.

POSTED: Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 at 11:01 am

BY: Associated Press

BP says it has received more than 6,500 claims from customers needing repairs after fueling up with some of the 2.1 million gallons of gasoline recalled in three states over high levels of a polymer residue.

POSTED: Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 1:55 pm

BY: Associated Press

It started with allegations of hangman’s nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill.

POSTED: Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 at 2:27 pm

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

Federal law should not have been applied in determining what constituted “reasonable” attorney fees in a successful consumer class action against auto makers Volkswagen and Audi, the 1st Circuit has ruled in vacating a $30 million fee award.

POSTED: Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 at 2:12 pm

BY: Beth Kevit, beth.kevit@wislawjournal.com

A Wisconsin Counties Association committee Tuesday offered initial support for Milwaukee County’s class-action lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over unpaid taxes.

POSTED: Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 at 8:19 am

BY: Beth Kevit, beth.kevit@wislawjournal.com

Milwaukee County has taken another step toward recovering about $200,000 in unpaid taxes from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but the state has not moved on the $800,000 it could be due.

POSTED: Monday, July 16th, 2012 at 2:25 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

After a series of rulings that left some litigators questioning the future of class action litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will wade into the issue once again next term.

POSTED: Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 at 12:35 pm

BY: Associated Press

A Milwaukee heating and air conditioning company’s insurance provider must defend the business against allegations it sent out an unsolicited “junk” fax in violation of federal law, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

POSTED: Thursday, June 7th, 2012 at 1:47 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

The Florida law firm Carlton Fields recently polled more than 300 corporate attorneys on class-action lawsuits, and respondents are predicting an increase in the number of suits filed this year.

POSTED: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 4:11 pm

BY: Associated Press

Lawyers for American Honda Motor Co. Inc. returned to court Thursday to try to overturn a highly publicized small claims court award to a woman who sued over the fuel mileage of her hybrid Honda Civic.

POSTED: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 at 4:11 pm

BY: Associated Press

The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of tribal money and trust lands, under a settlement announced Wednesday.

POSTED: Monday, March 12th, 2012 at 2:27 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

Merck will pay $5.1 million in attorney fees and institute corporate reforms under the terms of a settlement of a shareholder class action concerning the alleged suppression of negative clinical test results for the blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin.

POSTED: Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 at 9:27 am

BY: Associated Press

A group of migrant workers is suing a Wisconsin sauerkraut company alleging laborers weren’t paid enough.

POSTED: Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at 2:42 pm

BY: Associated Press

California’s attorney general won’t oppose a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and owners of its hybrid cars over inflated claims of fuel efficiency.

POSTED: Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 1:16 pm

BY: DOLAN MEDIA NEWSWIRES

In October, Kmart Corp. was hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company is running afoul of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The suit claims that the way it runs background checks on prospective employees is not allowed.