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What's New in the Courts

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
June 4, 2025

Superior Court in Arizona Sanctions Defendant for Deposition Obstruction

Written by Steve Herman
June 4, 2025

Reversing Friendly Contempt Order, Illinois Appellate Court Admonishes Parties Playing Games in Discovery

Written by Steve Herman
May 23, 2025

U.S. Fifth Circuit Finds Personal Jurisdiction over Foreign Manufacturer in Battery-Explosion Case

Written by Steve Herman