Merchants get a new chance to assert claims
Finding “egregious” misconduct by the lead lawyer for a class of American Express merchants, a New York district court rejected a request for final approval of a nationwide antitrust settlement.
The good news? American Express merchants that have
The Second Circuit today upheld a district court's order barring class members in a federal class action from suing class counsel in a new state court action for botching the class case by settling for too little. The panel ruled that the "relitigation exception" to the federal Anti-Injunction Act (which, by the way, played a
What do you do if you paid a bunch of money to settle a class action but some of the class members who didn't opt out demand that you arbitrate a dispute relating, at least in part, to the subject matter of the claims you settled?
You start by asking the arbitrators to stay their