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Class actions v. due process
August 18, 2015 | By ANASTASIA BODEN
In a case that will be heard next term, the Supreme Court will have to decide the limits of class action litigation. In our amicus brief brief, PLF urges the Court to scrutinize those limits closely. In Bouaphakeo v. Tyson Foods, a group of plaintiffs sued Tyson Foods for purportedly failing to pay them for the time they spent putting on and taki ...
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Court denies Dukes plaintiffs class certification, again
August 09, 2013 | By ANASTASIA BODEN
Last week, district court judge Charles Breyer may have written the last chapter of Wal-Mart v. Dukes, when he denied the plaintiffs' renewed attempt to bring a massive class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart for sex discrimination. Remarking on the path of the infamous lawsuit, the brother of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, "This case h ...