A federal judge recently dismissed a proposed class action on behalf of all New Yorkers who purchased Vizzy Mimosa Hard Seltzer. The lawsuit alleged that the beverage’s labeling misled consumers, ...

In a 4-3 decision last month, a divided New York Court of Appeals held that where an action brought as a class action is voluntarily dismissed, CPLR 908 requires both (1) judicial approval and (2) ...

New York CPLR Rule 908 requires court approval for class action settlements: “A class action shall not be dismissed, discontinued, or compromised without the approval of the court.” The role of the ...

Courts can approve class action settlements even when defendants deny fault. Here’s how the legal process works and why liability isn’t required.

Fifty years ago, federal court rules were changed to establish the current form of class action lawsuits. That 1966 modification had the laudable goal of making it easier for allegedly injured ...

A class action lawsuit backed by Joe Lieberman is challenging the excessive fees charged by PACER, the federal judiciary's electronic document system. For most of the nation’s history, the most common ...

U.S. corporations are heading into 2026 facing an unusually high number of class action appeals that could determine liability totaling tens of billions of doll ...

In a recent series of articles, we asked whether “class arbitration” — meaning the utilization of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 class action protocol in an arbitration proceeding — is ultimately viable. Given ...