The 1966 revision of Rule 23 has shaped our political and legal imagination. Building on the 1950 ruling of Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, which approved the possibility of binding absentees nationwide through representative litigation, Rule 23 expanded the groups eligible for class treatment. Aggregation responded to felt social needs—for banks to pool trusts, school students to enforce school desegregation injunctions, and consumers to pursue monetary claims too small to bring individually
The Supreme Court in 1888 was in crisis. Its overall structure and responsibilities, created a centu...
The federal class-action rule contains a provision, Rule 23(b)(2), that authorizes class-wide injunc...
Over roughly the past fifteen years, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have limited access ...
The 1966 revision of Rule 23 has shaped our political and legal imagination. Building on the 1950 ru...
From the perspective of the present day, Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contains a ...
The course of the present inquiry begins with a consideration of the current obstacles confronting a...
The class action has come of age in America. With increasing regularity, class litigation plays a ce...
The fiftieth anniversary of Rule 23’s adoption in 1966 provides an opportunity to consider how legal...
This Article maps the transformation of constitutional understandings of the forms of aggregation th...
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 23,...
Intervention under Rule 24 has been judicially construed in light of the 1966 Amendment to a loose b...
Class actions suits developed in the United States as a form of “group litigation,” an alternative t...
Over the past decades, aggregate litigation has become more common; through various statutory, rule-...
The genesis of the modern class action, the bill of peace, was developed by the Court of Chancery to...
Forgive me if I begin on an autobiographical note. Approximately fifty-five years ago I was a young ...
The Supreme Court in 1888 was in crisis. Its overall structure and responsibilities, created a centu...
The federal class-action rule contains a provision, Rule 23(b)(2), that authorizes class-wide injunc...
Over roughly the past fifteen years, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have limited access ...
The 1966 revision of Rule 23 has shaped our political and legal imagination. Building on the 1950 ru...
From the perspective of the present day, Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contains a ...
The course of the present inquiry begins with a consideration of the current obstacles confronting a...
The class action has come of age in America. With increasing regularity, class litigation plays a ce...
The fiftieth anniversary of Rule 23’s adoption in 1966 provides an opportunity to consider how legal...
This Article maps the transformation of constitutional understandings of the forms of aggregation th...
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 23,...
Intervention under Rule 24 has been judicially construed in light of the 1966 Amendment to a loose b...
Class actions suits developed in the United States as a form of “group litigation,” an alternative t...
Over the past decades, aggregate litigation has become more common; through various statutory, rule-...
The genesis of the modern class action, the bill of peace, was developed by the Court of Chancery to...
Forgive me if I begin on an autobiographical note. Approximately fifty-five years ago I was a young ...
The Supreme Court in 1888 was in crisis. Its overall structure and responsibilities, created a centu...
The federal class-action rule contains a provision, Rule 23(b)(2), that authorizes class-wide injunc...
Over roughly the past fifteen years, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have limited access ...