Ninth Circuit First to Take Up Offers of Judgment After Campbell-Ewald
As we reported earlier this year in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, 136 S. Ct. 663, 672 (2016), the Supreme Court held that a putative class action does not become moot when a defendant merely offers a...
View ArticleHeading Off the Pick-Off: Ninth Circuit Slams Door On Use of Rule 68...
Handed down January 20, 2016, the Supreme Court’s decision in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez was a major blow to what class action practitioners call the pick-off strategy: using a Rule 68 offer of...
View ArticleMooting Plaintiff’s Class Action Even After Plaintiff Refuses an Offer of...
For years, litigants have battled over whether a defendant’s offer of judgment, which completely satisfies the plaintiff’s individual claim, can moot a class action. In Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez, 136 S....
View ArticleThe Latest Developments in Rule 68 Law and Procedure for FLSA Actions
The recent US Supreme Court decision in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, No. 14-587 (Jan. 20, 2016) resolved a split in holding that an unaccepted Rule 68 offer of judgment does not moot a class...
View ArticleNew York Federal Court Ruling May Breathe New Life into Employment Class...
Is the pick-off strategy to moot class actions still alive in the Southern District of New York? Possibly. Last month we reported on Brady v. Basic Research, L.L.C. – the first decision to interpret...
View ArticleNew York Court Rules Rule 67 Deposit Cannot Be Used to Pick Off Named...
Recently, a New York court held that a putative class action defendant’s depositing of funds sufficient to cover the full amount of a plaintiff’s individual claims does not moot the plaintiff’s case...
View ArticleDepositing Settlement Offers: Is There a Campbell-Ewald Loophole?
Like many commentators, we have noted a potential loophole in the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, 136 S.Ct. 663 (2016). In that case, the Court did not decide whether...
View ArticleNew York Federal Court Interprets Supreme Court’s Gomez Pick-Off Strategy...
Last month, we wrote about the Supreme Court’s opinion in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, in which the Court ruled that “an unaccepted Rule 68 Offer of Judgment for complete relief does not moot a...
View ArticleFederal Rule 68 Loophole; Not So Fast, My Friend.
As we recently blogged about, in January the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Rule 68 ‘pick off’ strategy in its Campbell-Edwald decision. The ‘pick off’ strategy’ occurs when defense counsel offers...
View ArticleWhat Does Campbell-Ewald Mean for Your Business?
A recent ruling by the United States Supreme Court held that a defendant cannot terminate a putative class action by offering the representative plaintiff complete relief, rejecting some courts’...
View ArticleDefense Implications of Campbell-Ewald: The Sky is NOT Falling
On January 20, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated opinion in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, ruling that an unaccepted settlement offer, or offer of judgment, without actual...
View ArticleSupreme Court Holds Unaccepted Offer of Judgment Does Not Moot Claims, but...
On January 20, 2016, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez, No. 14-857 (U.S.), in which a 6-3 majority held that “an unaccepted settlement offer or offer of...
View ArticleUnaccepted Offer of Judgment Does Not Moot TCPA Plaintiff’s (or Putative...
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez ruled last week that an unaccepted offer of judgment under Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure does not divest the trial...
View ArticlePicked Off: the Supreme Court Rejects the Mooting Effect of Unaccepted Offers...
A seemingly innocuous recruitment text message from the United States Navy has led to the official unraveling of a tactic long-used and widely-favored by defendants to escape a class action lawsuit...
View ArticleWhy the Supreme Court’s Recent Class Action Decision is Important and What...
After the Supreme Court issued its decision last week in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez (here), in at least some quarters the story about the decision spread under the heading that the Court had issued an...
View ArticleSupreme Court Says Offering to Settle Cannot Moot Class Action Suits
Last week, the US Supreme Court ruled that an offer of judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 made to the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit, in addition to a separate free-standing...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Clarifies “Yearsley Immunity”: An Analysis of...
Though largely ignored by recent commentary, the Supreme Court’s recent Campbell-Ewald opinion significantly impacts government contractors’ ability to use the shield of derivative sovereign immunity...
View ArticleCampbell-Ewald V. Gomez: Unaccepted Offers of Judgment Do Not ‘Moot’ a Claim,...
Last week, the Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, 577 U.S. ___ (2016). In a 6-3 opinion, Justice Ginsburg, writing for the majority, held that an...
View ArticleCourt Rules Settlement Offers Can’t Kill Class Actions
In a hotly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court yesterday refrained from permitting defendants to end class action cases by offering to make named plaintiffs whole by paying their damages before...
View ArticleCampbell-Ewald Co. V. Gomez – Court Leaves Mootness Question Open
As you probably know, on Wednesday, the Supreme Court finally issued its long-awaited opinion in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez. Tammy Adkins & Helen Arnold of McGuireWoods’s Chicago office wrote up...
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