New Article Analyzes CAFA Commencement Issue

Lonny Hoffman (Univ. of Houston, visiting at Texas) has posted a new article analyzing the first year of caselaw concerning CAFA's commencement issue.  Though the issue of when a class action "commenced" for purposes of whether or not CAFA applies is an issue that will fade with time. Professor Hoffman argues that there are important lessons for statutory commencement issues generally that can be drawn from the CAFA caselaw.

UMKC Class Action Symposium

University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School will host a Class Action Symposium on April 7, 2006.  See here for details.

New Law Journal Symposium on Class Actions

The Fall 2005 edition of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (Volume XVIII, Number 4) features over 200 pages of articles on topics including: "Special Ethics Concerns in Class Action Litigation;" "Class Actions As an Alternative to Regulation;" "Empirical Analysis of Class Action Trends;" and "The Ethics Behind Due Process In Class Action Notice."  The issue also includes four articles concerning coupons settlements and two articles addressing the relationship of government enforcement to the superiority requirement in private class certifications.