USA - April 16 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep across the United States, numerous state governments — including Pennsylvania’s — have ordered all…
Renée M. Dudek, Robert J. Mancuso, Ashlee A. Paxton-Turner
USA - May 28 2019
As Congress appreciated when it enacted the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), large, multistate class actions are better suited for federal…
Michael P. Daly, Robert J. DeNault
USA - April 26 2019
In the wake of data breaches, companies may find themselves targets of class actions by customers or employees whose personal information was…
Irene M. Rizzi, Kristin Ann Shepard
USA - April 26 2019
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an arbitration agreement cannot be read as permitting class arbitration unless the agreement…
Irene M. Rizzi, Kristin Ann Shepard
USA - April 24 2019
Arbitration is a matter of consent, not coercion. That straightforward legal principle has been the polestar of much of the Supreme Court’s…
Irene M. Rizzi, Kristin Ann Shepard