A woman in Oklahoma bought a 3G netbook from RadioShack for $100, subsidized by a two-year data plan from AT&T Mobility. That plan comes with a 5GB monthly data cap, which she exceeded, and as a result her first monthly bill was over $5,000. Now the two companies are facing a class action lawsuit th...

The long-awaited criminal trial involving W.R. Grace & Co. and its alleged actions in Libby, Mont. (pictured), kicked off on Monday in federal court in Missoula. Click here for the Bloomberg story; here for coverage from the Missoulian; here for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s take; here...

The Federal Judicial Center in November released a report on the workings of the Class Action Fairness Act, which (contrary to some predictions made at the time) has in no way gotten the state courts out of the class action......

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy is still fighting for justice, even as he sits in a federal prison. His latest battle: raising a ruckus over a securities-fraud settlement involving HealthSouth that was approved by an Alabama federal judge back in 2007. The Fulton County Daily-Report has a nic...

I heard that Dell settled a class action lawsuit and all Dell computer owners may have a claim in the settlement. I couldn’t find anything on the Dell Web site, so how do we find out if we have a claim in this settlement? – Todd Computers have always been a much more complicated consumer...

Yesterday, the Law Blog wrote a piece for the WSJ, the LB’s sister publication, in which we posed the following question: Which party should foot the costs of a lawsuit? Should each side bear its own costs, as they do in the U.S.? Or would we be better off with a so-called loser-pays system &#...

An article in the Wall Street Journal -- The Debate Over Who Pays Fees When Litigants Mount Attacks, by Dan Slater -- chronicles the increasing discussion over loser-pays lawsuit financing. (H/t Torts Prof Blog.) Professor Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) is quoted......

by Tom Willging, Federal Judicial Center [Ed. note: The following post was written by Tom Willging, a senior researcher at the Federal Judicial Center, the research arm of the federal judiciary. Tom knows as much about the inner workings of the federal judicial docket than anyone. This post on the F...

by Brian Wolfman The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) has just released the most recent in a series of reports to the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee concerning the operation of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). Read the report here. The report represents the beginning of phase...

To whom it may concern: I’m not sure where to begin. There’s a lot of fantastic things about your film, a lot of gambles you took paid off, a lot of beauty. It had Catherine Hardwicke’s directing signature all over it. The style of the shots and the tone almost looked like a nicer,...