Class Actions & Mass Actions
by wendy on 02/01/08 at 1:38 pm
Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), Class Arbitration, and Securities Update
Recording Date: October 8, 2009
Duration: 90 minutes
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Agenda and Speakers
Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), Class Arbitration, and Securities Update
• Review of recent decisions under CAFA, including discussion of local action, home state and other CAFA “carve outs”; state attorney general litigation; CAFA appellate issues
• Mass Actions under CAFA
- Consumer class actions for refunds or diminished value in federal and state courts
• Medical monitoring in federal and state court
- Tanoh v. AMVAC Chemical Corp. – what this case means and how much can Plaintiffs play with the structure of a class to affect jurisdiction
- What happens if a class is not certified under CAFA? Does it stay or does it go?
• Recent developments in securities and antitrust class actions
- In re Hydrogen Peroxide Antitrust Litigation – what this case means for class certification, what needs to be pleaded to preserve class certification
- The impact of Supreme Court pleading cases on class actions, Twombly and Iqbal
• Propriety of review on the merits by courts asked to certify a class under Rule 23 Class Action in the arbitration context
• Is CAFA working as intended?
Paul Rheingold, Esq., Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & McCartney LLP, New York
Howard Suskin, Esq., Jenner & Block, Chicago
Georgene Vairo, Esq., Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
