The Supreme Court, in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011), set a high standard for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 (“Rule 23”). Under Rule 23(a), the ...

General counsel and the class action bar should take note that a new provision in Québec’s new Code of Civil Procedure (NCCP), which comes into force on January 1, 2016, may create an obstacle for ...

Discovery in civil litigation is intended to give all parties fair access to the evidence necessary to litigate the claims and allow for the trial to proceed on a full record of all the relevant ...

In civil litigation, police most commonly appear as defendants. But police also act as plaintiffs, suing the individuals they police. This Article argues that these plaintiff police claims cause ...

A controversy at the University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School (not to be confused with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). [1.] Here's the text of an exam question (worth 1 ...

In recent weeks, activist organizations fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and sometimes even Government grants have obtained sweeping injunctions far beyond the scope of relief ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the damage big government does, especially to education. The plaintiffs’ bar has perfected a system for extracting ...

Last year, the Florida Supreme Court adopted comprehensive changes to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. These changes took effect on Jan. 1, 2025. There is much to unpack in the new rules. Parties ...

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