A practitioner's guide to class actions
Marcy Hogan Greer, national editor.
- 1st ed.
- Chicago, IL Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association c2010.
- li, 1354 p. 26 cm.
Includes index.
Precertification / Joseph H. Park -- Ethical and practical issues of communicating with members of a class / Scott J. Atlas -- Class definition / Madeleine Fischer -- Numerosity, commonality, and typicality / Ruth A. Bahe-Jachna -- Adequacy requirements / Madeleine Fischer -- Nonmonetary relief / Marcy Hogan Greer -- Predominance and superiority / Rand P. Nolen -- Certification hearings and decisions / Steven F. Griffith, Jr. -- Interlocutory appeals / Michael S. Truesdale -- Discovery from class members / Bradley S. Wolff, Molly Prodgers King, Ernessa M. Brawley -- Trials / Michael J. Mueller, Jason M. Beach -- Settlements / Linda S. Mullenix -- Attorney fee awards and incentive payments / Clifford H. Walston -- Claims administration / David Holland -- The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 / Marcy Hogan Greer, Paul L. Peyronnin -- Mass actions under the Class Action Fairness Act / James L. Bernard, Jill A. Krauss -- Multidistrict litigation / Thomas C. Galligan, Jr., Richard J. Arsenault -- Daubert challenges in class certification / Daniel M. McClure -- The special role of 23(b)(2) classes / Jeffrey M. Grantham, C. Patrick Bodden -- Medical monitoring classes / Marcy Hogan Greer, Madeleine Fischer -- Bankruptcy and class actions / Van A. Cates -- Consumer actions and fraud/reliance-based torts / Peter H. Mason, Joshua D. Lichtman, Eric A. Herzog -- Antitrust / Layne Kruse, Dan Pirolo -- Exposure torts / Richard W. Mark, Laurie Strauch Weiss -- Oil and gas royalty classes / Mark D. Christiansen -- Employment / Wyndall A. Ivey, Dick Semerdjian, Sarah Brite Evans -- Insurance / Richard L. Fenton -- Securities / Harold C. Hirshman, Camille E. Bennett -- Statistical sampling as a basis for extrapolating liability and/or damages / Peter A. Antonucci -- Aggregation or stacking of penalties or punitive measures / Julian W. Poon, Theane Evangelis Kapur, Blaine H. Evanson -- Quantifying notice results in consumer, mass tort, and product liability class actions--the Daubert/Kumho tire mandate / Katherine Kinsella -- The plain language toolkit for class action notice / Katherine Kinsella -- Reality check : the state of new media options for class notice / Katherine Kinsella, Maureen Gorman -- Arbitration and class actions / Thomas Werth Thagard III, J. Ethan McDaniel, Alexander B. Feinberg -- Class action waivers in arbitration provisions / Joseph B. G. Fay ...[et al.] -- Res judicata and collateral estoppel issues in class litigation / Andrew S. Tulumello, Mark Whitburn -- Multistate class actions and choice of law / Andrew S. Tulumello, Geoffrey C. Weien -- Parens patriae actions and the limits of state sovereignty / Richard L. Fenton -- Kendra hartman -- Class actions involving foreign parties / Robert Ted Parker, Charles F. Rysavy -- Management techniques and devices for segmenting aggregate litigation / Edward F. Sherman -- Creative application of rule 23(c)(4) : how issue certification interacts with the requirements of rule 23(b)(3) / Cari K. Dawson -- Modification and decertification of classes / J. Benjamin King -- Other due process challenges to the class device / Christopher Chorba, Blaine H. Evanson -- Use of special masters in connection with class proceedings / F. A. Little, Jr -- Ethical issues in class actions / Robert D. Phillips, Jr.