2015 February

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

Mike Arias

2015 February

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?

Ara Jabagchourian

2015 February

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

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

Garo Mardirossian

2015 February

The Darvocet headache

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

Pete Kaufman

2015 February

Fraud after Riverisland and Julius Castle

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

Paul A. Traina
Jared W. Beilke
Andrew M. Jacobson

2015 February

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

Abbas Kazerounian

2015 February

The Case against the Supreme Court

Donna Bader

2015 February