The Supreme Court hasn’t taken many cases regarding the interpretation of FRCP 23 lately. As a result, there are a number of important issues percolating in federal courts that have resulted in splits among the federal Circuit Courts.
Until SCOTUS rules on these issues, in other words, it matters profoundly where some class actions are filed. Examples of the issues impacted include fundamentals of class definition, such as how to determine if a class is “ascertainable.”
This webinar will look at some of the most important circuit splits and discuss how they impact litigants. Panelists will highlight relevant petitions before the court and trends in class action jurisprudence.
Title:
Class Action Issues Ripe for Review: Some Current Circuit Splits
Webinar Date/Time:
October 23, 2024
12:00 PM EDT •11:00 AM CDT •10:00 AM MDT •9:00 AM PDT
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Credit:
1 Credit approved or applied for in most states.
Speakers:
- Dr. Adam Feldman is the creator and author of the Empirical SCOTUS blog, the principal at Optimized Legal Solutions Consulting, and was the previous statistics editor for SCOTUSBlog. He holds a law degree from U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and practiced law as a trial lawyer for four years before starting a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California where he was one of six university wide recipients of the Ph.D. Achievement Award. He subsequently completed a doctoral fellowship through Columbia Law School and is currently an adjunct professor teaching courses on law and political science. He has fifteen published or forthcoming articles in law and peer-reviewed journals and is currently developing an engine to predict legal outcomes based on trial and appeals oral arguments.
- Josh Yount is a partner in Mayer Brown’s renowned Supreme Court and Appellate practice. With over 20 years of experience, Josh has a long history of successfully defending corporate clients in class action, appellate, and other legal matters. His class action work spans a wide array of subjects, including mass torts, product liability, antitrust, securities, consumer protection, banking, and insurance, in both state and federal courts. In appellate matters, Josh has represented clients in the US Supreme Court, most federal circuit courts, and many state appellate courts. He also provides strategic guidance during pretrial, trial, and post-trial phases to develop and preserve arguments for appeal. Additionally, Josh has authored chapters in treatises on federal appellate practice, securities class actions, and Seventh Circuit appeals, and he contributes to Mayer Brown’s class action blog.
- Moderator: Eleanor Tyler is a Legal Analyst on Bloomberg Law’s Litigation team, with a focus on antitrust. Previously, she spent seven years reporting for Bloomberg Law's antitrust news desk. Before joining Bloomberg Law in 2010, Eleanor was a litigation associate at a large law firm. She clerked for the Hon. Simeon Lake in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Her JD is from Georgetown University, and she holds an MA in international affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
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