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Three Reasons Class Actions Will Rebound, Part 2

By Barry Barnett on August 15, 2016

We left off last Monday in the middle of something — the Seventh Circuit’s latest proof of its leadership in the law of class actions.

Now let’s finish up with the surge before turning to the third and final reason class actions will rebound: Politics.
Continue Reading Three Reasons Class Actions Will Rebound, Part 2

By Barry Barnett on August 8, 2016

Have class actions — after a steady decline under the Roberts Court — begun a come-back?

I believe they have. And I offer here, and in the next post, three reasons they will continue to rebound.

The outsize influence of Justice Scalia

Justice Antonin Scalia disliked class actions. He advocated putting a spotlight on class…