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KRUMAN v. CHRISTIE'S INT'L PLC

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Class Actions
The Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act of 1982 does not alter the rule announced in National Bank of Canada v. Interbank Card Assoc., 666 F.2d...

OLMSTED v. PRUCO LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW JERSEY

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
The Investment Company Act of 1940 does not provide for a private right of action for violations of sections 26(f) and 27(i).

CANADY v. ALLSTATE INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Insurance Law
Where the district court permanently enjoined plaintiffs from prosecuting a class action against multiple, unrelated defendants, based upon the same...

ZAMBRANO v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERV.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Immigration Law
When an underlying action has previously been dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, and that decision has become final, a court may not...

IN RE: DIET DRUGS

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law
In this case involving competing mass tort class actions in federal and state courts, interlocutory appeal from an order enjoining a mass opt out of a...

CLARK v. PORTAGE COUNTY

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Family Law
Plaintiff, whose claimed interests were vague and amorphous, did not have a private right of action, deriving from Title IV-D of the Social Security...

COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA v. NEW JERSEY DEP'T OF PERSONNEL

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
A party that never filed its own employment discrimination charge with the EEOC cannot piggyback on another plaintiff's EEOC charge and complaint...

RIVERA v. WYETH-AYERST LABS.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Health Law
Where plaintiffs aver that the allegedly defective product was not defective as to them, they have not demonstrated an injury in fact to themselves,...

RIVERA v. WYETH-AYERST LAB.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In an appeal seeking nationwide class certification of drug purchasers and their insurance companies, plaintiffs' failure to demonstrate an injury in...

SIKES v. TELELINE, INC.

Class Actions, Communications Law
In a class action suit against a telephone carrier, arising out of a 900-number telemarketing program, the district court abused its discretion in...