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Roundtable-Class Action

Jul. 1, 2013

Class Action

An update with Dechert; Dentons; Goodwin Procter; Keesal; Young & Logan; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Robins; Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi; and Rutan & Tucker.

The U.S. Supreme Court's denial of class certification for 1.5 million female employees in 2011 in Dukes v. Walmart was a clear watershed in federal class action litigation. Its biggest direct impact may be on procedure - when a class certification motion is heard, how much evidence is in play. But it has major strategic implications. Other key developments in class action litigation include the Ninth Circuit's scrutiny of recent class action settlements and rising interest in a...

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