Class Action

Law School That Didn't Exist Is Sued by Student Who Didn't Take Classes
From today's Santa Clara County (CA) new-case report: Katrina Petrini (in pro per) v. Doug Marcus aka Douglas Marcus; Chuck Marcus; Charles Marcus; Marcus Charles; National Law School Inc...

Nagareda in Class Certification
Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof, by Richard A. Nagareda, Vanderbilt University School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Few pre-trial motions in our civil justice system elicit as much controversy as those...

Nagareda on Mass Tort Litigation
In a new featured column at PointofLaw, Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) argues that resolution of mass torts requires a reconception of the attorney-client relationship and the role of the civil tort system: What is needed for mass torts is a corresponding...

New featured column: Richard Nagareda on mass tort settlement
Prof. Richard Nagareda of Vanderbilt Law has made a big splash with his new volume Mass Torts in a World of Settlement, which argues that the fair and socially efficient resolution of mass injury cases is going to require revising...

Nagareda on Class Certification & Aggregate Proof
Richard A. Nagareda (Vanderbilt University School of Law) has posted Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof (New York University Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Few pre-trial motions in our civil justice system elicit as much...

Fourth Circuit holds that to be convicted of aggravated indentity theft a defendant must assume the identity of a specific person
In UNITED STATES v. MITCHELL, Mitchell used a false driver?s license and counterfeit checks in the name of Marcus Jackson to buy merchandise and return it for cash refunds. He was convicted of aggravated identity theft...

David Hasselhoff Divorce
Baywatch star reaches settlement in family lawsuit.