The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to examine whether class certification is automatically barred when the proposed class definition is "fail safe"—or when membership hinges on a case's outcome on ...

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and class definitions. Every class action complaint contains a proposed class definition. It is an indispensable piece of the landscape, just like the ...

Another day at the Supreme Court and, suitable for the way this term has gone, another case that pretty clearly does not belong before the court. The justices granted review in Laboratory Corporation ...