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 […]
While perhaps rare, directly paying off a named plaintiff and putative class members before class certification is one tactic for potentially nipping a class action in the bud. It can be effective when both parties are willing to play ball and negotiate a settlement. However, a recent Eleventh Circuit decision […]
In 2020, the Eleventh Circuit broke ranks with decades of precedent from nearly every federal circuit by holding that incentive awards in class action litigation are violative of 19th century precedent from the United States Supreme Court. Although the Supreme Court denied a request to review the Eleventh Circuit’s ruling, […]