Chesapeake Energy Corporation produces natural gas. As gas royalty class actions have become more popular in the last decade, it has also been a defendant in a number of cases alleging that it underpaid mineral royalties to various landowners. One of these cases recently resulted in a denial of class certification that is worth some

 On Monday, I reported on the passing of Vanderbilt Professor Richard Nagareda. Given the widespread recognition of his contributions to studying aggregated litigation, it seemed appropriate to revisit one of his better articles: Aggregation and Its Discontents: Class Settlement Pressure, Class-Wide Arbitration, and CAFA, which originally appeared in the Columbia Law Review in