Sentences with phrase «said class certification»

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Microsoft lawyer Jeff Fisher said defendants could not use this maneuver because they can not voluntarily dismiss a lawsuit if they want to get an automatic appeal of a decision granting class certification.

Nonetheless, the judge said «substantial damages are not a reason to decline class certification,» because he could reduce them at a later stage of the litigation.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

In July this year, after the case had survived various motions to dismiss, Judge Denise Cote at the United States District Court Southern District of New York, denied class certification in the case of Mary Simmons and Jodi Foster versus Author Solutions, saying that certain requirements had not been met.

At the time Cote denied the class certification, Andrew Phillips, president and c.e.o. of Author Solutions, said: «From the outset, we believed the court would establish the truth and determine the class action allegations were without merit.»

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That was already fairly clear and the plaintiffs in the Microsoft case tried to get around that by saying well, we'll dismiss our individual claims with prejudice so that we can appeal the denial of class certification.

Central to the decision was a finding that the potential of a number of class members wishing to opt out of an action should not be a bar to certification, lawyers say.

«This certification motion shows that employers who misclassify employees as contractors can have substantial liability towards those workers, no matter what the contract says,» said plaintiff class lawyer Andrew Monkhouse.

If you're hit with a class action, it's important to get representation quickly and coordinate your defense, he says, because the certification process can move quickly.

«This is a rare class action because the vast majority settle after certification,» says Henry Juroviesky, managing partner at Juroviesky and Ricci.

«I suspect this progression, over the past couple of years, where all of these BPCPA claims are coming to certification hearings and we're seeing the appropriate restrictions on class actions predicated on the BPCPA, I suspect this will stem the tide of these kinds of class actions insofar as consumer claims require the BPCPA to be viable,» says Rosenberg.

The decision follows a trend in B.C. dismissing certification of consumer protection class actions where the plaintiffs have not suffered any real damage or loss and limits the scope for class - wide remedies pursuant to the B.C. Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act, says Robin Reinertson, a partner with Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in Vancouver.

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