JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Says Class Members Must Demonstrate Standing at Summary Judgment for Certified Damages Classes

A recent Ninth Circuit decision held that both named and unnamed class members in a class seeking monetary damages must come forward with sufficient evidence of Article III standing at the summary ...
Reuters

Supreme Court may limit class certification through Article III standing requirement

March 10, 2025 - The Supreme Court is set to decide a question that has vexed lower courts and class action practitioners for years: Can a class be certified if some members did not suffer any injury ...
Reason

"To Certify This Class …, the Court Must Find That the Named Plaintiffs Have Retained Competent Counsel to Represent the Class"

And the court declines to so find when the proposed class counsel filed a brief containing "a wholesale fabrication of quotations and a holding on a material issue" (presumably stemming from using AI ...
Law

Could the U.S. Supreme Court Finally Address Uninjured Class Members?

The first brief in the case, Laboratory Corp of America v. Luke Davis, is due March 5. 'This petition presents an opportunity for this court to finally answer the questions it reserved in Tyson ...
JD Supra

Hanging in the Balance: Supreme Court Declines to Decide the Uninjured Class Member Question in Labcorp v. Davis

Class certification is sometimes referred to as the “death knell” of a class action because it can exert extraordinary pressure on defendants to settle, regardless of the merits. The prospect of ...