Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth’s 16th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 1,467 rulings and is our most comprehensive Report ever at 800 pages.
Click here to access the microsite featuring all the Report highlights. You can read about the five major trends of the past year, order your copy of the eBook, and download Chapters
Continue Reading Seyfarth’s 2020 Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Is Now Available!
Seyfarth Synopsis: Happy Holidays to our loyal readers of the Workplace Class Action Blog! Our elves are busy at work this holiday season in wrapping up our start-of-the-year kick-off publication – Seyfarth Shaw’s Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report. We anticipate going to press in early January, and launching the 2020 Report to our readers from our Blog.
By Seth Fortin, Esther Slater McDonald, and Jennifer A. Riley
Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 30, 2019, the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion in Krakauer v. Dish Network, L.L.C., No. 18-1518 (4th Cir. May 30, 2019), that paved the way for TCPA plaintiffs to collect historic awards from unsuspecting defendants. The Fourth Circuit held that TCPA plaintiffs need not
Continue Reading Fourth Circuit Affirms $61 Million Treble Damages Award in TCPA Class Action Against Marketing Agency’s Customer
Seyfarth Synopsis: Of the five major class action developments in 2018, the decline in class action settlement numbers may have been most the striking shift. In fact, when compared to the 2017 numbers, the value of the top class action settlements in 2018 decreased by over $1 billion. In today’s blog, our readers can see and hear Workplace Class Action
Continue Reading Seyfarth Shaw’s Jerry Maatman Presents On 2018 Class Action Trend 4: Lower Class Action Settlement Numbers
By: Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Julie G. Yap, and Phillip J. Ebsworth
Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 18, 2019, in Porath v. Logitech, Case No. 18-CV-3091 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 18, 2019), Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California rejected, for the second time, Defendant’s attempts to allow pre-certification discussions relating to
Continue Reading A Unique Approach to Class-wide Settlement?
Seyfarth Synopsis: Yesterday’s blog posting gave our readers an in-depth look at class action settlement developments in 2018, the fourth trend of this year’s Workplace Class Action Report (“WCAR”). In terms of the top ten largest settlement among substantive areas of class action litigation, the monetary value of major case resolutions plummeted in 2018.
Continue Reading 5 Key Trends In Workplace Class Action Litigation For 2018: Trend #4 Billion-Dollar Downturn Video
Seyfarth Synopsis: As measured by the top ten largest case resolutions in various workplace class action categories, overall settlement numbers decreased significantly in 2018 as compared to 2017. After settlement numbers were at an all-time high in 2017, those numbers fell dramatically over the past year. In sum, the ability of the plaintiffs’ bar to
Continue Reading 5 Key Trends For Workplace Class Action Litigation In 2018: #4 Lower Class Action Settlement Numbers In 2018
Seyfarth Synopsis: At 852 pages, Seyfarth’s 15th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 1,453 rulings and is our most comprehensive Report ever.
Click here to access the microsite featuring all the Report highlights. You can read about the five major trends of the past year, order your copy of the eBook, and download Chapters
Continue Reading Seyfarth’s 2019 Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Is Now Available!
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Michael L. DeMarino
Seyfarth Synopsis: Professional class settlement objectors can be a thorn-in-the-side for employers and class counsel attempting to settle class actions. Their M.O. is often the same — frivolously object, appeal its denial, settle out of court, and withdraw. It is already hard enough to obtain court approval of
Continue Reading Illinois Appellate Court Rules That Class Settlement Objectors Engaged In Fraud On the Court
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Michael L. DeMarino
Seyfarth Synopsis: In an opinion laced with frustration over a third appeal in a class action involving attorneys’ fees, the Seventh Circuit ruled that an objector was entitled to recover attorneys’ fees from class counsel’s fee award. “Unless the parties expressly agree otherwise,” the Seventh Circuit explained, “settlement agreements should
Continue Reading Seventh Circuit Allows Objector To Recover Fees From Class Counsel’s Fee Award
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