Last week the Eleventh Circuit addressed an issue that many class action practitioners probably haven’t thought much about: whether approval of a class action settlement requires that each class ...

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and class definitions. Every class action complaint contains a proposed class definition. It is an indispensable piece of the landscape, just like the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to examine whether class certification is automatically barred when the proposed class definition is "fail safe"—or when membership hinges on a case's outcome on ...

Being upper-middle class is not just about how much income you earn, but how much disposable income you have after expenses. These numbers and the overall definition have changed over the years due ...

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