Circuit Court Applies Rigorous Class-Certification Standards
January 22, 2009
Source: The New York Law Journal. Reprinted with permission.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that a district court applied too lenient a standard in certifying a class in a chemical pricefixing case, joining other circuit courts in setting forth demanding class certification requirements. The Ninth Circuit ruled that a health care provider should have been permitted to try its claims that a brandname drug maker monopolized the market by defrauding the patent office.