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BEHLEN v. MERRILL LYNCH

Class Actions, Securities Law
A state court action, seeking damages resulting from the purchase of shares in a mutual fund, was a "covered class action" asserting state law claims...

CITY OF HIALEAH v. ROJAS

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
A former city employee was last denied permanent employment status prior to 1979, and did not file an EEOC complaint until 1997, thus his claims are...

ROSIE D. v. SWIFT

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
The Eleventh Amendment does not bar a class action against Massachusetts officials for prospective injunctive relief, arguing that the federal...

BUNKER v. COUNTY OF ORANGE

Class Actions, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
An action, seeking to require a county to send out notices to certain taxpayers when the county has failed to make a final determination on petitions...

HENRY SCHEIN, INC. v. STROMBOE

Class Actions, Cyberspace Law, Health Law
Because plaintiffs who purchased faulty dental practice management software products failed to demonstrate, as Rule 42(b)(4) requires they must, "that...

TELXON CORP. v. FED. INS. CO.

Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law
District court's grant of summary judgment to defendant affirmed, where defendant was not obligated by an officers and directors liability policy to...

UHL v. THOROUGHBRED TECH. AND TELECOMM., INC.

Class Actions, Communications Law, Property Law & Real Estate
District Court's determination that a class settlement, involving a fiber optics company and landowners, met the requirements of FRCP 23 affirmed,...

IN RE: VENEMAN

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
Petition for interlocutory review denied, where the issues critical to the following question were entirely unbriefed: "In a case involving requests...

HYATT v. BARNHART

Attorney's Fees, Class Actions, Government Benefits
Because plaintiffs were the prevailing parties in settlement agreement-litigation, and the SSA's interpretation of that agreement was not...

MCSTAY v. I.C. SYSTEM, INC.

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection
In a putative class action, ambiguity in a letter as to when the thirty-day period to dispute a debt would begin to run was not sufficiently confusing...