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Summer 2010, Volume 8, Number 1

AUG-10(1)
 |  Dec 21, 2015

In this issue: Courts and authorities—both in the United States and Europe—have muddied the waters regarding various class issues. To try to clear things up a bit, we first asked…

Antitrust Class Actions After Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
 |  Aug 15, 2011

William Monts III, Aug 15, 2011 Class action lawsuits are a staple of private antitrust litigation in the United States. Over the last four decades, they have become particularly prevalent…

Recent Developments In Antitrust Class Actions in The United Kingdom
 |  Aug 10, 2010

Robert O’Donoghue, Aug 10, 2010 Somewhat fitful attempts at promoting antitrust damages litigation have taken place in the EU in the last several years. These attempts have been stymied to…

English Court of Appeal’s Judgment in Cooper Tire and Ors v. Dow Deutschland and Ors
 |  Aug 10, 2010

Ruchit Patel, Aug 10, 2010 On July 23, 2010, the English Court of Appeal rejected an appeal brought by Dow Deutschland and others against a 2009 decision of the English…

The Supreme Court Invalidates State Restriction on Federal Class Actions in Shady Grove v. Allstate
 |  Aug 10, 2010

Daniel Crane, Aidan Synnott, Aug 10, 2010 The United States Supreme Court recently held that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 trumps a state rule that forbids all class action…

Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores: En Banc Ninth Circuit Lowers the Bar for Class Certification and Creates Circuit Splits in Approving Largest Class Action Ever Certified
 |  Aug 10, 2010

Donald Falk, Marcia Goodman, Archis Parasharami, Aug 10, 2010 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a significant decision affirming the certification of the largest class…

The Duchesses Come Out Swinging in Dukes: Restoring the Balance in Class Certification
 |  Aug 10, 2010

Jay Himes, William Reiss, Aug 10, 2010 With its much-anticipated en banc decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the Ninth Circuit became the most recent federal court of appeals…

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