U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation
Jun. 28, 2018
American Pipe ruling does not apply to successive class claims
The Supreme Court’s decision in China Agritech offers key insights on the competition arising from multiple class-action filings by would-be class representatives and a district court’s role in managing this competition.
John P. Stigi III
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John is based in the firm's Los Angeles office where he is a member of the firm's Business Trial Practice Group.
OCTOBER 2017 TERM
Once a class complaint is filed in federal court, putative class members do not need to protect themselves from the statute of limitations by bringing their own individual claims. They can wait because a doctrine recognized in American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974), tolls the statute of limitations from the date a class action complaint is filed to the date the district c...
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