SEC policy shifts, rulings on investor class status and actionable company statements, and discussions about the future of ...

In an important decision regarding the size and potential scope of a putative class, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recently granted a defendant’s motion to exclude ...

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Fortunately for the Angels, they were able to come to terms with five of their six arbitration eligible players without going ...

In his Complex Litigation column, Michael Hoenig, a member of Herzfeld & Rubin, writes that the Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a February 2012 holding that an arbitration and class action waiver ...

This fifth installment of our series on employment arbitration delves into how an arbitration program can effectively eliminate multi-plaintiff, class, and collective actions brought by employees. The ...

Tesla has successfully managed to kill another class action lawsuit from customers by forcing them to go to arbitration. It’s the second time in a few months that Tesla has managed to weasel its way ...

In his Products Liability column, Herzfeld & Rubin member Michael Hoenig writes: For many litigants and lawyers it is, or soon will be, a "brave new world" in the universe of torts, class actions, and ...

The number of class action settlements in 2023 outpaced predictions for the second year in a row, which will likely incentivize the plaintiffs bar to be even more aggressive in seeking class standing, ...

In a little-noticed opinion last month, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a National Labor Relations Board ruling that federal labor law trumps arbitration law. In other words, the ...

A former SeaWorld security worker must arbitrate his individual claims that the theme park stiffed him on pay and can’t ...