4 Corners debates the merits and the costs of class actions in Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/class-actions-law-firms-litigation-funders-justice-four-corners/105604998 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/the-price-of-justice/105612504 #auslaw #auspol #classactions
But #SCOTUS raised the possibility that #NationwideInjunctions are still permissible in certain circumstances, including #ClassActions, in which similarly situated people sue as a group, or if they are the only way to provide "complete relief" to litigants in a particular lawsuit.
Friday's hearing will shed light on how lower courts plan to address what providing complete relief entails, said George Washington University law professor Paul Schiff Berman.
Reynolds Argues OSHA Preemption in Illinois Genetic-Privacy Suit
Two truck drivers’ genetic privacy lawsuit against Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. should be thrown out because their state-law…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Genetics #classactions #dismissal #employmentinterviews #geneticdataprivacy #preemption #Science #workplacenoise
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/14449/
https://www.europesays.com/us/67830/ Reynolds Argues OSHA Preemption in Illinois Genetic-Privacy Suit #ClassActions #dismissal #EmploymentInterviews #GeneticDataPrivacy #Genetics #preemption #Science #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US #WorkplaceNoise
#ClassActions must follow what is known as #Rule23, which requires the plaintiffs to meet several elements including proving that the proposed #class members suffered the same #injury. Conservative #SCOTUS Justice Samuel #Alito warned lower courts against certifying nationwide classes without "scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23.”
The #Trump admin appealed the ruling, which White House *aide* #StephenMiller called a judge's attempt to "circumvent" #SCOTUS’ ruling by recognizing "a protected global 'class' entitled to admission into the United States."
"I think there's going to be a lot more #ClassActions," said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the #ACLU, which brought the #asylum case.
https://www.europesays.com/us/8303/ Computing Part Maker Stock Plan Suit Tossed on Standing Grounds #ClassActions #Computing #EmployeeStockOwnershipPlans #SecuritiesFraud #standing #stock #Technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US
Bank enters into deal with jails that detainees’ money upon arrest plus any outside funds received go onto a debit card. Upon release, the detainee gets the card, which comes with fees. Court certified class action for violations of state and federal law.
#law #contracts #DebitCards #Incarceration #litigation #ClassActions
Court dismisses purported class action against Home Depot over late fees for tool rental. The claims were not strong, but the action was dismissed because named plaintiff failed to provide written notice. He only called multiple times to complain.
#law #contracts #litigation #ClassActions
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/home-depot-wins-summary-judgment-on-class-action-relating-to-rented-tools.html
Court dismisses class action against Amazon Prime alleging breach of contract for making us pay to watch ad-free. Following precedent, the Court finds the change a permissible change in services rather than an impermissible price increase. 
#law #contracts #TermsOfService #Amazon #Prime #Streaming #ClassActions #Litigation
Justice Gorsuch presses Sauer on his argument that people can bring #ClassActions instead of seeking #NationwideInjunctions by noting that it takes time to assemble a class & pursue such an approach. Sauer says there can be emergency grants of class status but adds “it is a feature not a bug” that courts only grant relief to the people who are in front of them, not to other people who did not bother to sue.
Plaintiff tries to bring a class claim for mismanagement of ERISA funds. Defendant corporation moves for individual arbitration. Sixth Circuit says that whole point of ERISA is group claims, so arbitration provision with class action waiver is invalid.
#law #contracts #arbitration #litigation #ERISA #ClassActions
A class-action complaint against Albertson’s over non-drowsy cough medicine that made plaintiffs sleepy provides a good teaching case on timely notice of a warranty claim.
Declaring Twitter’s terms of service unconscionable in part, Federal Magistrate Judge in California allows some class action claims relating to data breaches to proceed.
#law #contracts #TermsofService #Twitter #litigation #ClassActions
New Jersey Supreme Court upholds a class action waiver in a lease without an arbitration clause. Nothing in New Jersey law or policy stands in the way of freedom of contract in such matters, & the lease was not unconscionable.
Plaintiffs sought to bring a class action against Chipotle for not providing change during a national coin shortage. The class was not certified; plaintiffs persisted. They lost, but I'm wondering why they persisted with a claim for <$1/plaintiff.
#law #contracts #ClassActions #litigation #CivilProcedure #Chipotle
#ClassAction as a measure to deliver recourse against #Corporations is inherently #flawed, #unjust and cements the fact that "If the #penalty is a #fine, it's only #illegal for the #poor"!
In case you don't believe me that #ClassActions only exist to enrich #LawFirms and allow any #corporation to send out insultingly-low #cheques:
#Valve literally changed their [luckily illegal in places with #ConsumerProtection like the #EU] #SteamSubscriberAgreement to basically force people [in the #USA and the rest of the world] to kiss their #Steam account goodbye if they choose to join a Class Action.
#Sony's #OtherOsSettlement didn't force them to #reinstate the #OtherOs functionality on the #PS3 and only gave US comsumers tiny cheques! A core functionality that was as much of a seller of the product as #BackwardsCompatibility and #BluRay playback...
No Class Action against #Apple forced them to #undo shit they purposefully designed into products - espechally their #AntiRepairDesign with #DRM that basically requires a RAT to authenticate parts which they do to this very day and which they literally patented...
(Don't even get me started on the shitshow that is #iCloudLock which I hope the @EUCommission will #ban as it's *infringing on #ConsumerRights re: #property and causes thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste...)
Has software industry missed the train on EU’s new liability rules? https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/has-software-industry-missed-the-train-on-eus-new-liability-rules/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AILiabilityDirective #artificialintelligence #classactions
