See, here’s the thing. Russell Jackson stole my case. The Seventh Circuit decided an important case on the limits of Rule 23(b)(2)–Kartman v. State Farm Mutual Auto Ins.–and I set it aside to blog about today. But Jackson’s great writeup covers everything I wanted to.  

And here’s the other thing. There have been a lot of good writeups of class actions lately.  To wit:

• Drug & Device Law reported on Sergeant Benevolent Ass’n Health & Welfare Fund v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLP in the Eastern District of New York.  The court denied certification to a RICO class because proof of reliance would be too individualized.  
• Jackson also wrote up a case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Powers v. Lycoming Engines, that held that applying the law of a manufacturer’s residence to a multi-state class action violated due process.  
• Gilbert Brosky of the Employment Class Action Blog reports on a decertification of an FLSA class action of Home Depot assistant managers based on the variations among managers’ duties.  
• And Paul Karlsgodt reviews a recent article on whether class-action notices comply with Rule 23.  (Many of them don’t.)

I usually don’t like just to point you to what other people have written on class actions (that’s what my Twitter feed is for).  But every once in a while, it’s worth taking one post of mine to point out a bunch of really good posts by others.