JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Invalidates Local Rule Requiring Class Certification Motions to Be Brought Within 90 Days

Central District of California Local Rule 23-3 requires plaintiffs to file a motion for class action certification within 90 days of service of the complaint. The 9th Circuit in ABS Entertainment ...
JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Says Local Rule 90-Day Deadline to File Class Certification Motion Incompatible With Federal Rule 23

In a case with potentially nationwide ramifications, the Ninth Circuit reversed a California district court’s decision striking a motion for class certification as untimely, finding the district court ...
Law

Court of Appeals Holds Class Certification Should Be Denied on Certification Motion and Not a Motion To Dismiss

What is remarkable about 'Maddicks' is that the Court of Appeals and a panel of the First Department mustered only bare majorities to reach this unremarkable conclusion. Richard J. Schager Jr. The ...
Reason

Class Action Not Allowed in Suit Alleging Psychological Harm to TikTok Content Moderators

From yesterday's Order Denying Motion for Class Certification, by Judge Vince Chhabria (N.D. Cal.) in Young v. ByteDance Inc.: [1.] The primary relief sought by Young on behalf of the class is forward ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Public defenders argue motion for class action falls short

FAYETTEVILLE — A federal lawsuit against a district judge in Benton County for failing to appoint lawyers for defendants at first appearance hearings should not be granted class action status, ...
Reason

"To Certify This Class …, the Court Must Find That the Named Plaintiffs Have Retained Competent Counsel to Represent the Class"

And the court declines to so find when the proposed class counsel filed a brief containing "a wholesale fabrication of quotations and a holding on a material issue" (presumably stemming from using AI ...