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The Real Problem with Settlement-Only Class Actions

By The Editors on April 4, 2013
Posted in Certification, Scholarship, Settlement

Fordham law professor Howard M. Erichson has a new paper up at SSRN on "The Problem of Settlement Class Actions."  Based on dicta in the Supreme Court’s opinion in Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor, courts have taken to certifying classes for settlement purposes only without worrying about "manageability," that is, whether the…

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