On September 11, 2019, Judge Dan Aaron Polster of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division approved a novel negotiation class certification in the massive Opiate MDL. Merely one year later September 24, 2020, the Sixth Circuit reversed Judge...

Class actions have been a feature of the American litigation landscape for over 75 years. For most of this period, American-style class litigation was either unknown or resisted around the world. Notwithstanding this chilly reception abroad, American class litigation has always been a central...

During the 2015-16 term the Court continued its recent, robust interest in class action litigation, granting review in four class action appeals. This article analyzes the Court's decisions in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, DIRECTV, Inc. v. Imbrugia, and Spokeo v....