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Labor/Employment

Dec. 7, 2016

Appellate judges wearily wrestle with Class Action Fairness Act

Two seasoned employment litigators were at times sheepish Monday as a federal appellate panel quizzically examined a dispute regarding the Class Action Fairness Act.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Two seasoned employment litigators absorbed some low-key verbal abuse Monday as a federal appellate panel quizzically examined a Class Action Fairness Act dispute.

"I hate you both," 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William A. Fletcher deadpanned to defense attorney Thomas R. Kaufman, a partner at Sheppard, Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, and plaintiff's attorney John J. Glugoski of R...

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