Consumer Law Materials: Class Actions

Consumer Law (Spring 2009)

Supplemental Materials on Class Actions

Assigned reading:

Fiser v. Dell Computer Corp., 188 P.3d 1215 (N.M. 2008)
In re American Express Merchants' Litigation, 554 F.3d 300 (2d Cir. 2009)
Pleasants v. American Express Co., 541 F.3d 853 (8th Cir. 2008)
Homa v. American Express Co., ___ F.3d ____, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 3688, 2009 WL 440912 (3d Cir. Feb. 24, 2009)
Edward F. Sherman, Decline & Fall, 93 ABA J. 51 (June 2007)
Terry Carter, A Step Up in Class, 94 ABA J. 22 (May 2008)

Additional background material (optional):

Howard M. Erichson, CAFA's Impact on Class Action Lawyers, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1593 (2008)
Allan Kanner & M. Ryan Casey, Consumer Class Actions After CAFA, 56 Drake L. Rev. 303 (2008)
Bryon Allyn Rice, Comment, Enforceable or Not?: Class Action Waivers in Mandatory Arbitration Clauses and the Need for a Judicial Standard, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 215 (2008)
William B. Rubenstein, Understanding the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (2005)
Dale v. Comcast Corp., 498 F.3d 1216 (11th Cir. 2007)
Shroyer v. New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc., 498 F.3d 976 (9th Cir. 2007)
Scott v. Cingular Wireless, 161 P.3d 1000 (Wash. 2007)
Litman v. Cellco Partnership, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 87570, 2008 WL 4507573 (D.N.J. Sept. 29, 2008)
Shubert v. Wells Fargo Auto Finance, Inc., 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105198, 2008 WL 5451021 (D.N.J. Dec. 31, 2008)