When a products manufacturer spends nearly $40 million to settle a class action regarding alleged defects in its products and alleged misconduct in their marketing, it might reasonably expect that a class member could not subsequently bring a lawsuit about the same product. This may especially be true where a […]
Whether bringing or defending a class action in South Carolina state court, counsel should closely analyze Rule 23 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure to understand the foundations of class-action practice in the state. While South Carolina’s drafters adopted language from the federal rules, South Carolina’s version of […]
Could issue-class certification soon be headed to the Supreme Court? In late December, a D.C. medical transportation company defending a wage and hour class action asked our nation’s highest court to take another look at a D.C. Circuit opinion weighing in on an issue-class certification order. Here, paying homage to […]
In a previous post, we covered Sos v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and analyzed the pick-off exception under Eleventh and Fourth Circuit case law. No. 21-11769 (11th Cir. 2023). Sos involved another issue of significance: the calculation of attorneys’ fees, which is the subject of this blog post. Click […]