Proskauer - Class & Collective Actions
Index
- Second Circuit Adopts The “Highly Individualized” Primary Beneficiary Test In Unpaid Intern Lawsuits
- Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
- Magistrate Recommends Denial of Class Certification in Goldman Sachs Gender Discrimination Suit
- California Court Rejects Class Action Waivers In Employment Arbitration Agreements
- Court Approves FLSA Settlement that Extinguishes Related State Law Claims
- Third Circuit Signals End To “Hybrid” Class Action Debate
- Recent Cases Show Key Role Early Trial Plans Play in FLSA Class Actions
- Fifth Circuit Tips Its Hand as to Analysis of FLSA’s Tip Credit
- Wang v. Chinese Daily News: the Ninth Circuit Takes A Step
- Second Circuit Reaffirms Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements Containing Collective Action Waivers In Two FLSA Cases
- Supreme Court Tightens Class Action Rules, Rejecting Class Composed of 1.5 Million Wal-Mart Employees
- Seventh Circuit Holds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Administratively Exempt – Broadly Interprets Discretion And Independent Judgment
- Supreme Court Finds Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Exempt From Overtime; Department of Labor’s Interpretation of FLSA Regulations Not Entitled To Any Deference
- FLSA Consent-To-Join: Will Any Old Thing Do?
- California Court Holds that Representative PAGA Claims Are Not Subject to Mandatory Arbitration
- Seventh Circuit Affirms Denial of Class Certification for Failure to Show Commonality under Dukes in Vacation Pay Suit
- Supreme Court Takes Away a Class Action Defense Tool That We Couldn’t Really Use Anyway
- Ninth Circuit Invalidates Attempt To Plead Around CAFA’s Jurisdictional Amount In Controversy
- Looks Like Wal-Mart Has The Edge - But By How Much?
- FLSA Decertification: District Courts Write Largely On A Blank Slate
- Fourth Circuit Finds District Court Erroneously Applied Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes In Denying Leave to Amend Complaint in Pay Discrimination Suit
- Employees Must Live With Their Agreements; California Court of Appeal Affirms Class Action Waivers In Employment Arbitration Contracts
- Rebuking “Trial by Formula,” Federal Court Decertifies Rule 23(b)(3) Class Action
- United States Supreme Court Says that Equitable Tolling Cannot Extend Deadline to Appeal Class Certification Decisions Under Rule 23(f)
- Plaintiffs Once Again Denied Class Certification in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Second Circuit Decision
- Ninth Circuit Holds that Last-Known Addresses of Putative Class Members Are Insufficient To Satisfy CAFA Exceptions
- Second Circuit Mandates Arbitration For Title VII Class Action
- The Supreme Court Favors Arbitration -- Again
- Seventh Circuit Holds That Individualized Damages Preclude Certification
- Oxford Health Plans v. Sutter
- California Appeals Court Clarifies Scope of Commissioned Salesperson Exemption
- Supreme Court: Certification Requires Class-wide Proof of Damages
- Embracing Wal-Mart & Distinguishing McReynolds, The Seventh Circuit Reverses Class Certification Of Sprawling (And Stale) Classes
- Class Arbitration Waivers: More Uncertainty
- Sixth Circuit Confirms Employees Must Report Time Worked
- U.S. Supreme Court Grants Review on Important Mootness Issue
- Fifth Circuit Addresses FLSA Tip Credits Once Again
- Decapitating Class Actions
- United States Supreme Court Says Courts Cannot Compel Classwide Arbitration Absent Affirmative Contractual Agreement
- Losing the Battle But Winning the War
- Increase in Rat Population Predicted
- Eleventh Circuit Adopts Second Circuit’s “Primary Beneficiary” Test for Unpaid Interns
- Former Dukes Class Members Foiled by Eleventh Circuit’s “No Piggybacking” Rule
- Nibbling Away at Concepcion
- Second Circuit Revives Contract Attorney’s Misclassification Suit
- Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument On Whether Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Are Exempt From Overtime
- Northern District of New York Denies Class Certification and Decertifies Collective, Confirming Common Answers Not Common Questions Are Required
- U. S. Supreme Court Holds that Third-Party Defendants to Counterclaims Cannot Remove Class Actions to Federal Court
- How Do Individualized Issues Impact a Class Action Settlement?
- Second Circuit Compels Individual Arbitration of Putative Class FLSA and State Labor Law Claims
- NLRB Greenlights Aggressive Response to Class Action Filings
- District of Massachusetts Grants Class Certification but denies Summary Judgment in Independent Contractor Misclassification Case
- Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Class Certification for Wage and Hour Claims on Predominance Grounds
- Second Circuit Affirms Expansion of Gender Bias Class Action against Sterling Jewelers