JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Finds Class Certification Inappropriate in Case Involving Projected Sold Adjustments on Auto Insurance Total Losses

A recent Ninth Circuit decision reconciled other decisions within that circuit involving auto insurance total losses, concluding that individual questions predominated and therefore affirming the ...
JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Says Class Members Must Demonstrate Standing at Summary Judgment for Certified Damages Classes

A recent Ninth Circuit decision held that both named and unnamed class members in a class seeking monetary damages must come forward with sufficient evidence of Article III standing at the summary ...
Law

Ninth Circuit OKs Huge Class in Wal-Mart Gender Discrimination Case

In a 6-to-5 opinion, the appellate court decided the biggest class action in U.S. history can move forward, allowing more than 500,000 female Wal-Mart employees to pursue back pay and injunctive ...
KXAN

Wisner Baum: Ninth Circuit Affirms Actos RICO Class Action Certification Against Takeda and Eli Lilly

Appellate Court upholds decision in first-ever non-settlement national RICO class action lawsuit certified against a major pharmaceutical company, with potential damages exceeding $7 billion. The ...
Law

Ninth Circuit Deepens Split on Class Action 'Ascertainability'

Plaintiffs lawyers don't need to put forth a plan for identifying class members to secure class certification, Judge Michelle Friedland wrote Tuesday in a defeat for the defense bar. Throwing its ...
The National Law Review

Ninth Circuit Confirms All Members of a Certified Damages Class Must Establish Standing to Survive Summary Judgment in Healy v. Milliman, Inc., _F.4th_, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS ...

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