North Carolina’s courts have been pretty quiet on the topic of class actions since our last North Carolina class action review, but there are two cases that class action attorneys should note. In the first, Surgeon v. TKO Shelby, 898 S.E.2d 732 (N.C. 2024), the North Carolina Supreme Court, in […]
When a products manufacturer spends nearly $40 million to settle a class action regarding alleged defects in its products and alleged misconduct in their marketing, it might reasonably expect that a class member could not subsequently bring a lawsuit about the same product. This may especially be true where a […]
Whether bringing or defending a class action in South Carolina state court, counsel should closely analyze Rule 23 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure to understand the foundations of class-action practice in the state. While South Carolina’s drafters adopted language from the federal rules, South Carolina’s version of […]
Could issue-class certification soon be headed to the Supreme Court? In late December, a D.C. medical transportation company defending a wage and hour class action asked our nation’s highest court to take another look at a D.C. Circuit opinion weighing in on an issue-class certification order. Here, paying homage to […]