JD Supra

Class Certification in the Fourth Circuit: 2025 Year in Review and Key Takeaways for 2026

With 2025 behind us, we wanted to do a deep dive into the Fourth Circuit’s class certification decisions to see what we could learn. And it didn’t disappoint. Last year was an eventful one for the ...
JD Supra

Class Dismissed: Fourth Circuit Affirms Denial of Class Proofs of Claim; Leaves Open Possibility for Similar Claims in the Future

On February 2, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that certain class action claimants in the Circuit City bankruptcy cases were authorized to file class proofs of ...
Reuters

9th Circuit decertifies tuna price-fixing classes, clamps down on uninjured class members

Antitrust class action plaintiffs won a battle on Tuesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Olean Wholesale Grocery Co-op Inc v. Bumble Bee Foods LLC(2021 WL 1257845) that three ...
National Law Review

Class Standing Redux- Ninth Circuit Holds Plaintiffs Must Present Evidence of Class Member Injury at Summary Judgment

WL 71863 (9th Cir. Jan. 9, 2026), the Ninth Circuit addressed a key Article III standing question left open by the Supreme Court in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021) – whether unnamed ...
Reuters

11th Circuit’s Equifax decision is full of good news for class action bar

(Reuters) - For class action plaintiffs’ lawyers, there’s a whole lot to like about the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision affirming approval of the $380.5 million Equifax data breach ...
Law

Sixth Circuit Creates Circuit Split on Insurance Valuation Class Action Certification

The Sixth Circuit concluded a federal judge for the Western District of Tennessee did not abuse its discretion when it certified the class. However, the Third, Fourth, Seventh and Ninth circuits this ...
Law

Tenth Circuit Adopts Ascertainability Test and Clarifies Class Action Requirements

In Cline v. Sunoco, Inc. R&M, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit largely affirmed the federal district court’s rulings certifying a class and awarding damages, and in the process, adopted ...
The National Law Review

First Circuit Rejects Class Action Settlement Based on Potential Intra-class Conflict, But Approves Named Plaintiff Incentive Awards

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Courthouse News Service

Sixth Circuit Hears Challenge to Class in Massive Opioid Case

CINCINNATI (CN) — Prescription opioid manufacturers and distributors argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday that a so-called negotiation class of state and local governments created by a federal ...
Courthouse News Service

Second Circuit axes class action challenge against Nature's Bounty fish oil supplements

MANHATTAN (CN) — The Second Circuit entered a judgment Monday in favor of Nature’s Bounty, a vitamin and nutritional supplement company, after consumers claimed the company wrongfully classified their ...