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Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari, Scott V. Johanns, No. 05-356 (U.S. Sept. 15, 2005), Scott L. Nelson, David C. Vladeck
Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari, Scott V. Johanns, No. 05-356 (U.S. Sept. 15, 2005), Scott L. Nelson, David C. Vladeck
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
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Preventing The Subversion Of Devlin V. Scardelletti, Brian Wolfman
Preventing The Subversion Of Devlin V. Scardelletti, Brian Wolfman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Devlin v. Scardelletti that objecting class members could appeal a federal district court’s approval of a class settlement without first intervening in the litigation. Public interest lawyer Brian Wolfman says the ruling was a victory for both objectors and the integrity of class action procedure: Objectors, he argues, help keep fairness hearings fair.
But a number of courts are now ruling that Devlin only applies to non-opt-out class actions, rather than the much more numerous ones that give class members opt-out rights. In this article, Wolfman details the exact wording of the …
Common-Law Disclosure Duties And The Sin Of Omission: Testing The Meta-Theories, Kathryn Zeiler, Kimberly D. Krawiec
Common-Law Disclosure Duties And The Sin Of Omission: Testing The Meta-Theories, Kathryn Zeiler, Kimberly D. Krawiec
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Article represents the first attempt to study empirically the factors that cause courts to impose disclosure duties on bargaining parties in some circumstances, but not in others. We analyze data coded from 466 decisions spanning a wide array of jurisdictions and covering over two hundred years. The results are mixed. In some instances our data support the conventional wisdom relating to common-law disclosure duties. For example, we find that courts are more likely to require the disclosure of latent, as opposed to patent, defects and are more likely to require disclosure when the parties are in a fiduciary or …