Both AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion and American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurants have been accused of bringing about the death of the class action.
Few would question that these opinions have made it more difficult to casually sue cell phone or credit card companies. But past that fairly obvious conclusion, it’s…
Professor Myriam Gilles holds the distinction of having called the arbitration issue earlier than almost any other academic. So when she writes a follow-up, it’s well worth paying attention. That follow up is here, in her latest working paper, Killing Them with Kindness: Examining "Consumer-Friendly" Arbitration Clauses after AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion. And her…
At the DePaul symposium a few weeks back, Professor Suja Thomas argued that the Supreme Court should not take on "oddball" cases, because the outlying facts make for decisions that are too sweeping. (She’s made this argument before about Iqbal and Twombly, so you don’t have to wait for the DePaul Law Review’s Symposium…
This was a busy year for class-action jurisprudence. Clearly, most of the Supreme Court cases had some effect on class action practice. But the district and appellate courts also rendered a host of rulings this year that significantly affect class-action practice. Despite what a number of academics and plaintiffs’ lawyers have claimed, the class action…
BNA’s Class Action Litigation Report has published an article by yours truly that adapts this post about arbitration post-Concepcion and tries to add a little more scholarly rigor.
They’ve also graciously allowed me to make it available here, where you can find it suitable for downloading, printing, and stuffing in the stocking of…
The Supreme Court decided AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion back in April, a decision that many scholars (and lawyers) have bemoaned as killing the class action. The hyperbole about the death of class actions (or their rebirth as shambling undead corpses) isn’t new, and it’s likely not merited. At the very least…
For those who are not yet suffering Concepcion fatigue from the many many many blog posts on the topic, I have a brief post up at the OUPblog on its effect on consumers.
Today, the Supreme Court began to roll out its class-action opinions. And first up, it has decided AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. In a 5-4 opinion authored by Justice Scalia (Thomas concurring), the Court held that § 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act preempted California’s Discover Bank rule, which "classif[ied] most collective-arbitration waivers in…
