Joshua D. Yount
Mayer Brown
Articles
Securities Exchange Act of 1934—scope of federal jurisdiction
USA - June 30 2015 Section 27 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Act") provides that federal courts "shall have exclusive jurisdiction" over "violations of…
Good News for Providers of Union Retiree Medical Benefits Springs from Unusual Procedural Move by US Supreme Court
USA - February 21 2018 Yesterday, the Supreme Court wielded its rarely used power of summary reversal to bring good news to employers providing medical benefits to union…
Seventh Circuit enforces important limit on class action tolling
USA - November 21 2017 As we have noted before, the tolling rule created by the Supreme Court in the American Pipe case-which tolls the statute of limitations for absent…
Two washer cases provide the Supreme Court with its best opportunity since Wal-Mart v. Dukes to make sense of class-certification standards
USA - January 7 2014 At its conference on January 10, the Supreme Court can get serious about fixing consumer class actions. The Justices should take up that challenge…
Mayer Brown files cert petitions in front-loading washer cases
USA - October 7 2013 Today, Mayer Brown filed a pair of certiorari petitions that challenge efforts by two federal appellate courts to narrow the Supreme Court's recent…
