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NCLC joined an amicus brief authored by Schnapper-Casteras PLLC with AARP, PJ, AAJ, the Impact Fund, NELA, and DRA in support of the Respondents in this case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which argues that putative class members are not required to each prove that they have Article III standing before a class is certified.
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NCLC has joined an amicus brief in this case before the Ohio Supreme Court, which involves a class action seeking statutory damages under state law for mortgage servicing misconduct. On appeal, Quicken argues that Article III standing should be imported into Ohio law. The amicus brief focuses on the different sources of standing under Article…
Read More about Amicus Brief: Voss v. Quicken Loans, LLC et al.
NCLC joined in an amicus brief authored by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law regarding the definition of “prevailing party” in civil rights cases where a preliminary injunction is obtained and the case is subsequently mooted out by a legislative fix. The outcome of this case will impact the ability of civil rights…
NCLC joined other consumer and workers’ rights advocates in this case involving equitable estoppel and forced arbitration. The amicus brief explains how an arbitration-specific version of equitable estoppel imposed by some courts to allow non-signatories to enforce an arbitration clause is wholly divorced from the traditional principles and interpretations of the doctrine, which require a…
NCLC and Public Justice filed an amicus brief urging the Massachusetts Supreme Court to confirm that Massachusetts has just one test for contract formation—whether that contract includes a forum selection clause, an arbitration clause, neither, or (as here) both, and whether the contract was purportedly formed on a computer, using a smartphone, or in the increasingly old-fashioned manner of a signed paper document. Neither Cullinane nor Ajemian applied a heightened notice or reasonableness standard. Rather, they both correctly applied the single unitary standard for forming a contract under Massachusetts law—a standard that Uber’s rider registration interface fails to meet.
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The Supreme Court held that “the commencement of a class action suspends the applicable statute of limitations as to all asserted members of the class who would have been parties had the suit been permitted to continue as a class action.” The question presented in this appeal was whether the plaintiffs, whose individual claims were…
Read More about Amicus Brief in China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh