The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an emphatic ruling rejecting a class action over Subway’s “footlong” sandwiches that, amazingly enough, sometimes come up short. In so doing, the influential Chicago court put the judges in its district, and hopefully elsewhere, on notice that so-called “settlement-only” classes that deliver Read more…
At the end of this month, California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Werdegar is scheduled to retire, giving Gov. Jerry Brown the opportunity to appoint his fourth justice to the highest court in the nation’s most populous state, ending a Republican majority and sealing his influence over the court for decades. Read more…
(Note: The jury ultimately tossed this case on Aug. 22, refusing to find the railroad responsible) NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The facts in Colon v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad are as clear as a jolt from a high-tension power line: Plaintiff Omar Milton Colon trespassed on a railroad right-of-way Read more…
It was an absurdly large lawsuit covering an absurdly large class: U.S. law firm Quinn Emmanuel wanted to sue MasterCard for 14 billion British pounds on behalf of roughly 70 percent of the U.K. population, which was supposedly overcharged over a 16-year period due to MasterCard’s interchange-fee policy. And a Read more…