Class Actions - General

A judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California recently issued a pro-employer ruling with regard to the jurisdictional minimum amount in controversy required by the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) of 2005—an issue that has not been resolved by the Ninth Circuit Court of A

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit became the latest federal appellate court to enforce an arbitration agreement with a class action waiver in a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In Walthour v. Chipio Windshield Repair, LLC, the court affirmed the distric

Executive Summary: The Eleventh Circuit recently held that an arbitration agreement that waives an employee's ability to bring a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). See Walthour v. Chipio Windshield Repair, LLC (11th Cir

In Rea v. Michaels Stores, a recent per curiam decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the court held that the employer had timely and properly removed a class action to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”).

The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) was enacted in 2005 to make it easier for out-of-state defendants to remove interstate class actions to federal court. As the Senate Judiciary Committee's Report noted at the time, plaintiffs’ attorneys were filing nationwide class actions and “carefully crafting

A recent Second Circuit decision has resulted in a major victory for employers who seek to eliminate class actions and resolve employment disputes through arbitration. In Southerland v. Ernst & Young LLP, Case No. 12-304 (August 9, 2013), the court held that nothing in the Fair Labor Standards Act o