Joshua Lichtman (US)

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Certification of damages class denied in “All Natural Fruit” false labeling suit

Updating our previous post, another federal district court has interpreted Comcast Corp. v. Behrend to require plaintiffs to demonstrate a viable “means of showing damages on a classwide basis through common proof,” and denied certification of a damages class based on a challenge to the validity of the regression model offered by the plaintiff’s expert. … Continue reading

Courts disagree whether attacks on expert damage models defeat class certification in the wake of Comcast

Federal courts continue to be split on whether the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend  requires plaintiffs seeking class certification to present viable, common methodologies to prove class-wide injury and damages. Two recent federal decisions highlight these competing views of Comcast. Uncertainty over the standards for the use of expert damages testimony … Continue reading
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