Author: Adam Doerr
Collegiate Sports Team Websites Are New Target in Privacy Class-Action Litigation
Since March of this year, at least four purported class action lawsuits have been filed against universities, their affiliated athletic organizations, and the alleged operators of their athletic team websites, Sidearm Sports LLC and Learfield Communications LLC. These cases allege that websites using Meta (Facebook) Pixel and other technology to monitor website traffic or activity […]
Happy New Year!
After a hiatus, Class Actions Brief is back in business and with an even deeper bench of contributors. Former North Carolina Solicitor General Matt Sawchak joined Robinson Bradshaw in 2020, and Matt now serves as one of our blog editors. He joins Class Actions Practice Group leaders David Wright and Adam Doerr in this role. […]
A Fresh Look: CCA is now Class Actions Brief
Loyal readers may notice that Carolinas Class Action received a facelift and has been renamed Class Actions Brief. Given our experience with class actions across the country, we want to broaden the scope in order to report on cases outside the Carolinas. We hope you find this expansion both interesting and informative, and we welcome […]
The Case of the $5 Footlong*
For what appears to have been a frivolous lawsuit, In re: Subway Footlong Sandwich Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation generated an interesting opinion from the Seventh Circuit full of class-action issues. The case originated when an Australian teenager posted a photo of an 11-inch Subway sandwich, with a tape measure, on his Facebook page. Coming in […]
NC Class Certification Appeals Bill Becomes Law
House Bill 239, which reduces the number of judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and provides for direct appeals of decisions regarding class action certification to the North Carolina Supreme Court, is now law. On April 26, the General Assembly voted to override Governor Cooper’s veto, and the bill has been enacted as […]
Pending Bill Would Permit Interlocutory Appeals of Class Certification Decisions Directly to NC Supreme Court
Governor Cooper vetoed House Bill 239 on April 21, rejecting the General Assembly’s effort to reduce the number of judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 15 to 12. The bill has been quite controversial, and four former North Carolina Supreme Court justices have said it would “seriously harm our judicial system.” Although the […]
Congress Considering Major Class Action Reform Legislation
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, recently introduced a bill that would make significant changes to federal class action litigation. The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 (H.R. 985) states that it is intended to allow prompt recoveries to plaintiffs with legitimate claims and “diminish abuses in class action […]
NC Supreme Court Affirms Certification of 800,000 Member Class (Fisher Part 2)
As we explained in Part 1 of our analysis of Fisher v. Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, the North Carolina Supreme Court recently exercised jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal and affirmed the certification of a class of hundreds of thousands of current and former tobacco farmers. In the first part, we discussed the Court’s jurisdictional […]
NC Supreme Court Takes Jurisdiction over Order Granting Certification (Fisher Part 1)
In its last batch of opinions for 2016, the North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the certification of a class of more than 800,000 tobacco farmers in Fisher v. Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation. Because Fisher raises a number of interesting class certification issues, and because the North Carolina Supreme Court rarely issues opinions addressing North […]
Securities Class Actions Continue To Rise
Earlier this year, we reported that Multiple Studies Show Increase in Securities Class Actions. Cornerstone Research, one of the groups covered in our earlier report, recently issued its 2016 Midyear Assessment. This new analysis, which covers cases filed in January through June of this year, is consistent with several of the trends we reported previously, […]