Last Friday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Archdiocese of Milwaukee Supporting Fund, Inc. v Halliburton Co. This is the fourth certiorari grant this term for a class action.
So what’s the issue in this case? Loss causation. In securities cases, plaintiffs are often allowed to rely on a theory called "fraud…
In re Hydrogen Peroxide was an antitrust class action. Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical that is often used a bleach for pulp and paper. In this case, the plaintiffs, all purchasers of hydrogen peroxide and other chemicals, sued their suppliers, alleging that the defendants had sold them more expensive chemical grades when less expensive ones…
Are courts making class certification too easy for defendants to oppose? San Francisco law professor Joshua P. Davis (this one, not this one) and Berger & Montague shareholder Eric Cramer argue just that in an forthcoming article in the Rutgers Law Journal, “Of Vulnerable Monopolists?: Questionable Innovation in the Standard…
