Add to ORKGFor the past ten terms the Supreme Court has increased its focus on the law of class actions. In doing so, the Court has revised the law to better accord with a view of the class action as an exception to an idealized picture of litigation. This exceptional view of the class action has had a profound impact not only on class action law, but on procedural and substantive law in general. However, in the October 2015 term the Court decided three class action cases that support an alternative, \u27functional view of the class action, one that does not view the class action as exceptional, but as one of many equally permissible tools to serve the objectives of substantive law. This alternative view has the potential to have a similarly signif...
The first era of the modern class action began in 1966, with revisions to Rule 23 of the Federal Rul...
This Note will attempt to work out a general approach to class actions recognizing the public law ch...
Last year, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stated, "the class action is an awkward device,...
This Article describes the evolution of the perception of the modern class action from populist darl...
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 23,...
Legislation that would alter class action practice in the federal courts has been pending in Congres...
This Article, prepared for a conference on the Class Action Fairness Act, examines the effect of CAF...
There is a growing movement in the federal courts to redress the grievances of groups, rather than i...
Today, virtually everyone has a proposal for reforming class action litigation but both consensus ...
Over roughly the past fifteen years, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have limited access ...
Class actions have been a feature of the American litigation landscape for over seventy-five years. ...
In 1966, the Supreme Court promulgated an amended rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, r...
Despite all of the controversial scholarship that has been published in recent years concerning the ...
In this Article, I offer my predictions on what the class action landscape will look like a decade f...
Over the past two decades, courts and commentators have often treated the class action as though it ...
The first era of the modern class action began in 1966, with revisions to Rule 23 of the Federal Rul...
This Note will attempt to work out a general approach to class actions recognizing the public law ch...
Last year, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stated, "the class action is an awkward device,...
This Article describes the evolution of the perception of the modern class action from populist darl...
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 23,...
Legislation that would alter class action practice in the federal courts has been pending in Congres...
This Article, prepared for a conference on the Class Action Fairness Act, examines the effect of CAF...
There is a growing movement in the federal courts to redress the grievances of groups, rather than i...
Today, virtually everyone has a proposal for reforming class action litigation but both consensus ...
Over roughly the past fifteen years, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have limited access ...
Class actions have been a feature of the American litigation landscape for over seventy-five years. ...
In 1966, the Supreme Court promulgated an amended rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, r...
Despite all of the controversial scholarship that has been published in recent years concerning the ...
In this Article, I offer my predictions on what the class action landscape will look like a decade f...
Over the past two decades, courts and commentators have often treated the class action as though it ...
The first era of the modern class action began in 1966, with revisions to Rule 23 of the Federal Rul...
This Note will attempt to work out a general approach to class actions recognizing the public law ch...
Last year, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals stated, "the class action is an awkward device,...