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The "Blawg"

November 10, 2025

U.S. District Court in California Certifies Narrow Class (Due to Article III Standing Issues) for Damages under ERISA (and RICO) for Inflated Balance-Billing Practices

Written by Steve Herman
November 9, 2025

U.S. Fifth Circuit Rejects Cross-Jurisdictional Tolling Based on Federal Class Action for Cases Initially Filed in Texas State Court

Written by Steve Herman
September 23, 2025

Southern District of New York Finds Evidence that Reed Smith Was Used to Advance Fraud on Arbitration Panel Traversing Privilege under Crime-Fraud Exception

Written by Steve Herman
July 28, 2025

U.S. Fifth Circuit Adopts – and Clarifies – the So-Called “Class Certification” Approach in Determining the Level of Showing Required to Satisfy Article III Standing at the Certification Stage

Written by Steve Herman
July 14, 2025

ABA Issues Formal Opinion regarding Discrimination in Jury Selection (including reliance on Jury Consultants and/or AI)

Written by Steve Herman
July 9, 2025

Northern District of Illinois Allows Financing Company that Purchased Claims Out of Bankruptcy to Pursue Federal Antitrust Claims as a matter of Federal Common Law

Written by Steve Herman
July 9, 2025

U.S. Fifth Circuit Finds that Life Insurer Waived Right to Cancel Policy By Continuing to Accept Premiums for Over Two Years

Written by Steve Herman
July 9, 2025

Reviewing GM Transmission Certification, the U.S. Sixth Circuit, En Banc, Reverses on Commonality and Predominance Grounds

Written by Steve Herman
June 22, 2025

Mississippi Supreme Court – Followed by the U.S. Fifth Circuit – Find that a Disinterested Third Party Cannot Purchase a Cause of Action from the Debtor’s Estate

Written by Steve Herman
June 6, 2025

U.S. Ninth Circuit Requires Heightened Scrutiny for the Knowing and Voluntary Waiver or Release of ERISA Claims

Written by Steve Herman