Jackson on Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts

Recent Posts from Jackson on Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts

• California Federal Court Allows Nationwide UCL Class Action in Pay-Per-Click Suit Against CitySearch

  California state courts are reluctant to apply their Unfair Competition Law to a nationwide class.  Perhaps it's because they recognize that theirs is one of the most liberal (and standardless) consumer fraud statutes in the…

• Federal Court Grants Summary Judgment In Medical Monitoring Suit Over Train Derailment

  In Mann v. CSX Transportation, Inc., Case No. 1:07-cv-3512, Slip op. (N.D. Ohio Nov. 10, 2009), plaintiffs sought medical monitoring as a result of a train derailment near Painesville, Ohio that resulted in a chemical…

• Federal Court Refuses to Certify Personal Injury Class in Suture MDL

  It's hardly news when another court refuses to certify a personal injury class action.  These days, it's almost a given that such litigation presents too many individual issues of fact to meet the predominance standard…

• UPDATE: CSPI High Sodium Class Action Was Dismissed without a Written Opinion, and Gives Plaintiff Leave to Amend

  Last week I posted about a news article reporting that the Center for Science in the Public Interest's putative statewide class action pending in New Jersey against Denny's was dismissed for failure to meet the…

• UPDATE: Judge Weinstein Dismisses Pre-Paid Phone Card Class Action

  Last month I posted about an advisory opinion issued by Judge Jack Weinstein in which he indicated that he likely would dismiss a putative class action over allegedly fraudulent sales practices involving pre-paid phone cards…

• Federal Court Tosses Wrongful Death Claims Under Torture Victims Protection Act and Alien Tort Claims Act

  An Alabama federal court recently held that the Torture Victims Protection Act does  not authorize wrongful death claimants to bring suit for their own damages, but instead merely authorizes them to sue for the torture…

• California Appeals Court Tosses UCL Claim Against Princess Cruise Lines for Plaintiffs' Lack of Reliance

  Despite conventional wisdom, cruises aren't for everyone.  Roger and Vivian Wang took a two-week European cruise with their two daughters in 2005, and they ended up bringing a class action against Princess Cruise Lines over…

• Side Note: Delaware Chancery Court Issues Important Opinion on Excess Insurance Coverage for Asbestos Exposure

  Although not within the technical bailiwick of this blog, I thought it was worthwhile to point out the Delaware Chancerty Court's recent decision in Viking Pump, Inc. v. Century Indemnity Co., Civ. A. No. 1465-VCS,…

• MDL Court in Bisphenol-A Litigation Dismisses a Number of Claims in Putative Class Actions

  No issue of science has been more of a political football in recent years than Bisphenol-A (“BPA”), a chemical used to create certain kinds of plastic bottles and epoxy linings that prevent food and beverage…

• CSPI's "High Sodium" Consumer Fraud Class Action Against Denny's Is Reportedly Dismissed for Failure to Plead Injury

  The Nation's Restaurant News is reporting that on Tuesday a New Jersey Superior Court dismissed a putative statewide class action lawsuit alleging that Denny's restaurants were violating the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and breaching…