As of October 1, Judge Smith has succeeded Judge McKee as Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge McKee has been Chief Judge since 2010, succeeding Judge Scirica in...

Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, ___ U.S. ___ (2016). Class action defendants often label cases seeking statutory damages as "no-injury class actions." Those defendants do not like statutes such as the Fair Credit...

Baskin v. P.C. Richard & Son, LLC, ___ N.J. ___ (2021). [Disclosure: I am one of the counsel for the successful plaintiffs in this matter]. In this case, the Appellate...

Dugan v. TGI Fridays, Inc., 445 N.J. Super. 59 (App. Div. 2016). This putative consumer class action has a long procedural history, including a previous appeal to the Appellate Division,...

Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, ___ U.S. ___ (2016). This decision, issued today, is one of several closely-watched class action cases at the Supreme Court of the United States this year....

Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States died yesterday. Born in Trenton, New Jersey on March 11, 1936, he was 79 at his death. A graduate...

Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, 136 S. Ct. 846 (2016). The Supreme Court of the United States has made some dreadful decisions in the class action area, including notorious rulings restricting...

Reyes v. Netdeposit, LLC, 802 F.3d 469 (3d Cir. 2015). Sometimes things slip through the cracks. This opinion by Chief Judge McKee was issued on September 2, but only now...

Regular readers of this blog have seen frequent criticism of the class action "ascertainability" doctrine espoused by Carrera v. Bayer Corp., 727 F.3d 300 (3d Cir. 2013). Recently, as discussed...

Daniels v. Hollister Co., 440 N.J. Super. 359 (App. Div. 2015). Readers of this blog have gotten their fill (including, most recently, here and here) of discussion and analysis of...