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Gattuso v. Harte-Hanks Shoppers, Inc.

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
Labor Code section 2802 permits an employer to pay increased salaries or commissions instead of reimbursing the employee for actual automobile...

Sotelo v. Gonzales

Class Actions, Immigration Law
The Board of Immigration Appeals' denial of plaintiffs' motion to reopen deportation proceedings is affirmed over their claim that they were entitled...

Brill v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law
In a class action alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the district judge erred when he rejected defendant's argument that...

Scottsdale Ins. Co. v. Detco Indus. Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Insurance Law
The district court erred when it dismissed plaintiff-insurer's federal declaratory judgment action, which sought a determination regarding its...

Schillinger v. Union Pac. R.R.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Property Law & Real Estate
In a trespass action, the district court properly remanded the suit to state court, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, since the case was...

Grovatt v. St. Jude Med.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law
In a class action concerning a recalled prosthetic heart valve, the district court erred in certifying a consumer protection class, seeking damages...

Bennett v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal.

Class Actions, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
The factual basis for plaintiffs' class claim--multiple, simultaneous incineration of human remains--is not an actionable wrong in the context of a...

Bush v. Cheaptickets, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
For purposes of the effective date of the Class Action Fairness Act, a class-action suit is "commenced" when the suit is filed rather than when it is...

Crabtree v. Cerner Corp.

Class Actions, Securities Law
The district court did not err in dismissing plaintiffs' class complaint where they did not meet the heightened pleading standards for falsity and...

Burdusis v. Super. Ct. of L.A.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6(a)(2) does not permit the exercise of a peremptory challenge on remand, following reversal of an order denying...