Roundtable-Class Action
Apr. 1, 2012
Class Dismissed
The Ninth Circuit makes it more difficult to certify nationwide consumer class actions.
Early this year the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals put the brakes on applying California's consumer-friendly laws to national class actions - in the process possibly curbing the ability of plaintiffs lawyers to roll up class members in other states.
The ruling came on an interlocutory appeal in a class action involving a sophisticated automobile braking system first offered by American Honda Motor Co. in 2005. Honda promised in its advertising that the system, a...
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