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Class Action Settlements, Cy Pres Awards, And The Erie Doctrine, Andrew Rodheim
Class Action Settlements, Cy Pres Awards, And The Erie Doctrine, Andrew Rodheim
Northwestern University Law Review
As class action settlement funds become more and more prevalent, cy pres awards have become a more common means of providing relief to absent class members. The primary purpose of cy pres awards is to provide a second-best form of relief when it is deemed impossible to directly compensate individual plaintiffs. Most often, these cy pres awards are given to some kind of charitable organization. Under federal law, class action settlements and cy pres awards are governed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(e). Rule 23(e)(2) requires all class action settlements to be “fair, reasonable, and adequate,” but provides no …
Erie's International Effect: A Reply, Donald Earl Childress Iii
Erie's International Effect: A Reply, Donald Earl Childress Iii
NULR Online
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Forum Shopping And The Infrastructure Of Federalism., James E. Pfander
Forum Shopping And The Infrastructure Of Federalism., James E. Pfander
Faculty Working Papers
The recent effort of environmentalists and others to secure progressive social change at the state level enacts a familiar ritual in the history of American federalism. Political actors who have found their initiatives blunted at the national level have often turned to the states. With the ebb and flow of political power between two parties over time, arguments about the relative authority of federal and state governments display far more expediency than principle, far more mutability than predictability. States may be more or less progressive than the national government, depending in good measure on the temper of the times and …