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Articles in this issue:

Wage-and-hour class actions: The law and the cases that have shaped it

Strong labor laws, the Unfair Competition law and recovery of attorney’s fees drive employment class actions in California


Web privacy litigation – Where is it heading?

Google and Facebook may know more about us than we want them to, but exactly what privacy laws have they violated, and do these laws take into account today’s electronic business models?


Punitive damages: Punishing and deterring oppression, fraud, and malice

A review of the statutes, case law and constitutional holdings, and illustrative cases


The Darvocet headache

The Ninth Circuit broadens the Class Action Fairness Act, dealing a blow to big-pharma cases


Fraud after [[case]]Riverisland[[/case]] and [[case]]Julius Castle[[/case]]

Consumers can now present evidence of oral promises at odds with their written contracts even if the contract has an integration clause


Principles of litigating consumer class actions

While class actions are complex, the cases most suited to class treatment are statutory-driven cases with a simple damages analysis


The Case against the Supreme Court

The Case against the Supreme Court