Commentary and analysis of two pending cases on the Supreme Court's 2012-13 docket, Amgen v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, and Comcast Corp. v. Behrend. Both cases present the Court with unanswered questions concerning class certification procedure and present the Court with...

Commentary and analysis of the Supreme Court decision in Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp., and reversing two decisions from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In Ortiz, a 7-2 decision, the Court reversed the Fifth Circuit's affirmation of a Rule 23(b)(1)(B) mandatory global settlement of asbestos...