A major Appellate Division argument, appellate briefing, and other work has interfered with keeping up with the courts during December. So it’s time for one of this blog’s periodic “catch-up” posts. Here, in summary, is some of what the Supreme ...
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it has granted certification in five more cases. Those matters run the gamut from criminal cases to tort cases to a long-running consumer class action. The class action is Little v. Kia Motors ...
The Supreme Court announced that it has granted leave to appeal in one case and certification in another. Both cases doubtless will be closely watched. The Court granted leave to appeal in Pisack v. B&C Towing, Inc., a class action ...
The Supreme Court has announced that it has granted certification in three cases, all criminal matters, and that a civil case will be before it on an appeal as of right. Here are the details. The civil case, a class ...
In re New Jersey Tax Sales Certificates Antitrust Litigation, 750 Fed. Appx. 73 (3d Cir. Sept. 6, 2018). [Disclosure: I am among the plaintiffs’ leadership team in this matter]. In this hotly-contested class action case, which began in 2012, plaintiffs ...
SLUSA Does Not Bar Investors’ Claims That Broker Overcharged Them to Execute Securities Transactions
Taksir v. The Vanguard Group, 903 F.3d 95 (3d Cir. 2018). As relevant to this appeal, the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998, 15 U.S.C. §78bb (“SLUSA”), states that “[n]o covered class action based upon the statutory or common ...
This time of the year there are slim pickings in terms of published opinions of the Supreme Court of New Jersey or the Appellate Division. Even unpublished Appellate Division opinions slow to a trickle. And, of course, the Supreme Court ...
Mielo v. Steak ‘n Shake Operations, Inc., 897 F.3d 467 (3d Cir. 2018). This was an appeal under Rule 23(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from a District Court decision that granted class certification in this case under ...
Little v. Kia Motors America, Inc., 455 N.J. Super. 411 (App. Div. 2018). Class actions notoriously take a long time. But the case in which Judge Koblitz issued a decision for her Appellate Division panel today is nearly old enough ...
Walsh v. Defenders, Inc., 894 F.3d 583 (3d Cir. 2018). The “local controversy” exception to federal jurisdiction over putative class actions under the so-called Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 28 U.S.C. §1332(d) (“CAFA”), requires certain uniquely local cases that were ...