In Mr. Dee’s Inc. v. Inmar, Inc., 127 F.4th 925 (4th Cir. 2025), the Fourth Circuit affirmed a decision by Judge William L. Osteen, Jr. of the Middle District of North Carolina denying, for the third time, plaintiffs’ attempt to certify a class of coupon manufacturers. It is not only […]
Over the past year, the Fourth Circuit has issued three decisions on class certification—all of which either affirmed certification or reversed and remanded to the district court to rule on certification. The opinions show the Fourth Circuit applying key principles in class-action practice, including mootness and the relation-back exception, standing […]
Traditional plaintiffs’ law firms found success as defendants in a recent Fourth Circuit case on the hotly contested issue of Article III standing in privacy litigation. In Garey v. James S. Farrin, P.C., No. 21-1478, 2022 WL 1815109 (4th Cir. 2022), the Fourth Circuit considered standing and more in a […]
On June 25, 2021, a divided Supreme Court issued an important decision regarding Article III standing in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 141 S.Ct. 2190 (2021). In TransUnion, a 5-4 Court found that 6,332 members of an 8,185-member plaintiff class did not suffer a “concrete injury” from TransUnion’s violation of the […]
