Zachary A. Madonia
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Articles
Circuit Split on Incentive Payments to Class Representatives Deepens
USA - October 7 2022 Two years ago, in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, LLC, the Eleventh Circuit upended decades’ worth of precedent by categorically forbidding incentive…
Dylan C. Black, Michael R. Pennington, J. Thomas Richie, Scott Burnett Smith
Eleventh Circuit Rejects Administrative Feasibility as a Requirement for Class Actions
USA - February 22 2021 Can a plaintiff represent a class without showing that there’s a feasible way to identify the absent class members? In its recent decision in Cherry…
“I told you never to call me here”: Eleventh Circuit Decertifies TCPA Class Containing Absent Class Members Without Article III Standing
USA - December 6 2019 The Eleventh Circuit last month issued a significant class action opinion in Cordoba v. DirectTV, LLC, vacating a class certified in a TCPA class…
“Any” Doesn’t Mean “All”: In Home Depot, SCOTUS Says “Any Defendant” Doesn’t Include Third-party Defendants Facing Class Claims
USA - June 3 2019 To the surprise of many observers (including us), the Supreme Court held last week in Home Depot USA Inc. v. George Jackson that a third-party…
SCOTUS Blows Down Apple’s House Made of Illinois Brick
USA - May 21 2019 In a 5-4 split decision, the U.S. Supreme Court appears to have reworked a longstanding precedent that has been a foundation of antitrust litigation…
