Raleigh-based litigator Joan Dinsmore brings us a discussion of yet another memorable opinion by Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner.
Earlier this year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit refused to reconsider en banc its decision reversing certification of a class of glaucoma sufferers who claimed that eye drop containers dispense drops…
Ah, class decertification in district court…the rarely glimpsed, late-harvest victory that comparatively few class action defense counsel can claim to have tasted. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California recently delivered one such victory for the 2016 vintage, decertifying a plaintiff class he originally certified in 2012 in a wage-and-hour litigation…
Sometimes, a case will come along that illustrates clearly a number of the different strategic choices that lawyers have to make when defending class actions. In Lightfoot v. District of Columbia, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1983 (D.D.C. Jan. 10, 2011), a group of former District employees sued the District of Columbia, "challenging the policies…
