Here is part two of my insights from the 2013 DRI Class Action Seminar:
Standard Fire v. Knowles (blog post): Ted Boutrous of Gibson Dunn, who argued for Standard Fire in the Supreme Court (I worked with him on the case), spoke about the Court’s decision striking down the use of a stipulation…
Last week I attended the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Class Action Seminar in Washington, DC. Here are some insights I gleaned from day 1 of the seminar (focusing on presentations that had some relevance to insurance class actions):
Comcast v. Behrend (see blog post): Miguel Estrada, who argued this case for Comcast…
Issues regarding the use of statistical evidence at trial of a class action were recently addressed by the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, in Duran v. U.S. Bank Nat’l Ass’n, 2012 Cal. App. LEXIS 107 (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 6, 2012). The court concludes that the trial of an employment class action…
Here is the third and final installment of my insights from the recent ABA conference.
Class Action Trials: There was a very interesting panel discussion on class action trials with some lawyers and a judge who have tried class actions. The panel included Andrew McGuiness, Judge Weinstein of the Eastern District of New…
Class action trials are so rare that there is little guidance in court opinions on how these cases should be tried, other than hypothetical discussions in class certification decisions regarding how trials might be conducted. In Strawn v. Farmers Insurance Company of Oregon, recently reported in Legal Newsline and the Soha & Lang Coverage…
