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The Eighth Circuit Just Became the Ultimate Safe Harbor for Mega-Settlements

The Eighth Circuit’s Billion-Dollar August Class action objectors hoping to blow up multi-billion-dollar deals just hit a brick wall in the Midwest. In a stunning eight-day span this August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit delivered ...

18 Sept 2026Class Actions, Antitrust
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The Class-Action Vise: Why the Seventh Circuit’s Clearview AI Reversal Breaks the Defense Playbook

The Death of the "Global Peace" Strategy For decades, the corporate defense playbook in mass consumer and privacy litigation has been brutally simple, if expensive: fight like hell at the motion to dismiss stage, and if you lose, buy global peace thr...

16 Sept 2026Class Actions, Seventh Circuit
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Algorithmic Collusion Hits a Circuit Split: Third Circuit Revives AI Price-Fixing Class Action

The End of the Smoke-Filled Room For decades, antitrust litigators hunting for Section 1 Sherman Act violations have looked for the proverbial smoke-filled room—emails, recorded calls, or secret meetings where competitors agreed to fix prices. But wh...

14 Sept 2026Antitrust, Class Actions
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Circuit Roulette: The 2026 Appellate Divide on Mega-Settlements and Algorithmic Antitrust

The Death of the Uniform Federal Class Action If you are a litigator operating under the assumption that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 means the same thing in Chicago as it does in St. Louis, 2026 is delivering a brutal wake-up call. A flurry of...

13 Sept 2026Class Actions, Appellate Practice

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