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Two years ago, in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, LLC, the Eleventh Circuit upended decades’ worth of precedent by categorically forbidding incentive payments to class representatives in...
Johnson v. NPAS Solutions the Second and Ninth Circuits have rejected the Eleventh Circuit’s NPAS decision, concluding that there is no automatic bar of incentive awards to lead plaintiffs in class actions. This clear circuit split could prompt Supreme Court to intervene.
In re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation, the ninth circuit addressed several issues of significance to lawyers negotiating class settlements including Incentive Awards, standard for settlements negotiated prior to certification, and attestation requirement.
A recent Ninth Circuit decision on a class action settlement, In re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation, 2022 WL 4492078 (9th Cir. Sept. 28, 2022), received significant attention...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A recently filed lawsuit illustrates the new litigation challenges that automakers will face as cars incorporate telematics and other connected car technologies. In a class action complaint filed in Bowen v. Porsche Cars N.A., Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on January 29, 2021, the owner of a 2011 Porsche vehicle claimed that a signal transmitted by Sirius XM Radio and “facilitated” by Porsche during a 2020 Memorial Day weekend promotional campaign caused a major malfunction in the “infot...