Proceedings of the Tulane Law Review Symposium.  The Problem of Multidistrict Litigation, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 2225, 2369, and 2423 (June, 2008).

Admit it. You watched every single presidential (and vice-presidential) debate waiting with bated breath to see the candidates actually debate an issue rather than deliver a stump speech. Because we know you were disappointed (like us), we went and found something even better for you: A debate on Multidistrict Litigation! What makes this debate so great, you ask? CAFA gets thrown into the mix, and the parties are not afraid to use it.Continue Reading Who? What? When? Where? Why? Three Scholars Discuss CAFA’s Role Surrounding the Issue of Multidistrict Litigation.

Early Saturday morning (September 27) we were tossing and turning trying to digest a recent CAFA opinion by a judge who just did not understand the reason behind CAFA.  Or was it the several glasses of Tangley Oaks Merlot from Friday night that was keeping us up?  Not sure.
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The Editors of the CAFA Law Blog are looking for friends with benefits.  You know what we mean.  Someone you can pal around with but also get down and dirty with and share your secrets of class action prosecution or defense tricks with.  So, want to hook up?  This is how you do it.

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Tired of watching the Weather Channel to see who is getting smashed this weekend by a Hurricane?  Not interested in any of the non-conference rent -a-win college football games this weekend?  Then, boy, have we got the thing for you!  How about learning some of the cool features of the CAFA Law Blog?Continue Reading Got Some Free Time This Weekend?

Not sure why it is called Labor Day when it we do not labor on Labor Day.  All we do on Labor Day is watch the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon anyway.  Well, while you are wondering if Jerry Lewis, the French’s favorite comedic icon, will share some of the Telethon donations with Ed McMahon so that Ed can pay back Donald Trump for bailing him out of his foreclosure on his multimillion dollar hovel, you can learn about some of the helpful features of the CAFA Law Blog.Continue Reading Shouldn’t It Be Called Non-Labor Day or UnLabor Day?

While everyone is glued to the TV tonight watching the Human Rights Violation Olympics, take the opportunity during one of the many commercial breaks or human interest stories of the unknown athlete from Monrovia, to take advantage of some of the features of the CAFA Law Blog.  Continue Reading Go For the Gold at the CAFA Law Blog Olympics!

Thomas E. Willging & Shannon R. Wheatman, Attorney Choice of Forum In Class Action Litigation: What Difference Does it Make? 81 Notre Dame L. Rev. 591 (Jan. 2006).

Is there a better way to discuss CAFA implications than through movie analogies? Of course not. Why not throw in an analogy to the blockbuster A Few Good Men? 

Continue Reading You Can’t Handle the Truth! Perceived Differences in State and Federal Court Treatment of Class Actions Debunked … and with Empirical Evidence at That.

For me, it started out like every other late night, cautious and tense. I’d found my way to the bar, to what “they” call their nightly CAFA Chill. It was typical of most of their little parties, lawyer guys and gals dancing and disco balls spinning against a background of dark red strobe light. The usual classys (that’s what these CAFA junkies called themselves) were huddled in the barely visible corner tables, getting their fix on free Westlaw passwords, searching public records of their friends without a file number, callously tearing pages out of old Sheppard’s citation books. They disgusted me, and my working for them disgusted me. Continue Reading Late Nights and Research. The Tale of the CAFA Cocktail.