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 […]
2022 was, in our estimation, a good year, including for class-action practice in North Carolina’s courts. All in all, 2022 gave us one important opinion from the North Carolina Supreme Court concerning Rule 23 as well as several court of appeals opinions concerning issues important to class-action practice, such as […]
Attorneys interested in class actions and antitrust law will read the Ninth Circuit’s recent opinion in the “tuna case”—Olean Wholesale Grocery Cooperative, Inc. v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC—with relish. 31 F.4th 651 (2022). The case contains important takeaways for class action and antitrust attorneys,[1] and also—the focus of this post—highlights […]
Class-action litigation is rife with obvious hazards such as potentially huge exposure and unique procedural rules. Class actions are also riddled with hidden traps: lesser-known rules and evolving doctrines that can trip up the unsuspecting attorney. We point out some traps so that you can leap over, run around, and/or […]