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Court Upholds Mass Class Action Opt-Out Permitting Individual Arbitrations
No company would relish the prospect of defending against a class action lawsuit and thousands of related individual ...
Class-action suit filed against Education Department for alleged self-obstruction
The nonprofit Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Friday against the United States ...
Dr. Oz was a defendant in a 2016 class action lawsuit over diet pills. What happened?
Dr. Oz, CMS nominee, is facing questions from the Senate today about his past promotion of dubious weight loss supplements, ...
LG Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Fire Hazard in Recalled Appliances Sold for Nearly a Decade
This action was surfaced by Law.com Radar, which delivers real-time alerting on new litigation across more than 2,600 state ...
UK’s biggest class action lawsuit could expose the perils of litigation funding
This week lawyers are delivering their closing arguments in the UK’s biggest ever class action lawsuit relating to a dam ...
Fired Federal Workers Cite Performance Claims in Class Suit (3)
A group of fired federal probationary workers is suing the federal government over their terminations, claiming that the mass ...
Due Process Gets Left at the Stop Sign, Class Action Claims
Moreno said whenever there's a stop sign that comes out of the bus, all cars are supposed to stop on both sides of the ...
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Fourth Circuit Finds Unilateral Change-in-Terms Provision Rendered the Arbitration Agreement Illusory Under Maryland Law
On March 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in ...
Why gaming company Valve would rather face a consumer class action than arbitration
Arbitration, the conventional wisdom goes, is supposed to be quicker and more cost-effective than court proceedings.