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PAIGE v. CALIFORNIA

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In a class action alleging that the California Highway Patrol's (CHP) promotional process discriminates against non-whites, an internal pool is the...

HALLETT v. MORGAN

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Where plaintiff class of prisoners failed to give timely notice of intent to seek extension of all provisions of a consent decree governing care...

MCKOWAN LOWE & CO., LTD. v. JASMINE, LTD.

Civil Rights, Class Actions
The class claims of intervening class members are tolled, if a district court declines to certify a class for reasons unrelated to the appropriateness...

FELICIANO v. RULLAN

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In a class action to remedy unconstitutional conditions of confinement in the Puerto Rico prison system, the district court's assignment of certain...

ROMINE v. ACXIOM CORP.

Class Actions, Securities Law
A claim under section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 was not actionable where the class failed to establish that the favorable quarterly financial...

FRANZE v. EQUITABLE ASSURANCE

Class Actions, Insurance Law, Securities Law
Where documents would put a reasonable person on inquiry notice to investigate, insureds lacked standing, both individually and as class...

FISH v. ST. CLOUD STATE UNIV.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In determining an attorney's fees award after a class of female university faculty members settled their gender discrimination claims, the district...

HEATON v. MONOGRAM CREDIT CARD BANK OF GEORGIA

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
In a class action alleging violations of Louisiana usury laws, because the FDIC was entitled to intervene, instant federal subject matter jurisdiction...

GABLE v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A class action suit, for damages to automobiles after they were towed to an impound lot, was not actionable against a city, where no policy or custom...

SANDERS v. KINKO'S INC.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
The Federal Arbitration Act (Act) does not preclude a state court from determining class certification issues before compelling enforcement of an...