Earlier this month, in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, No. 18-12344, --- F.4th ----, (11th Cir. Aug. 3, 2022), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied a petition for rehearing of a ...

The efficiency of the US class action regime hinges upon a core procedural mechanism: the class representative. By permitting a large group of plaintiffs with typically modest claims to rely on a ...

In Jones v. Farmers Ins. Exchange (2013) 221 Cal.App.4 th 986 (“Jones”), the California Court of Appeal held that “[t]he lack of an adequate class representative … does not justify the denial of the ...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed a class action application, after finding the representative had not “properly understood” the funding arrangements made with her own funder, ...