Frank explains the problem of class action tolling in mass tort personal injury litigation.

As there is no cap on total recovery under FACTA, damages for a willful violation could be in the hundreds of millions.

What had been a trickle of litigation over Vioxx became a flood.

The European Union is planning to tax all airlines that travel to and from the 27 EU nations based on the amount of carbon emissions they produce.  The tax, to be collected beginning in 2013 for prior year emissions, will be calculated based on the length of each flight. The farther the airlines travel, the heftier the tax.

Has the Class Action Fairness Act curbed abusive class actions, and will it do so in the future?

The Bush administration has made liability reform a top priority. In Congress this January, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) plans to address the most urgent problem by introducing a bill to reform class action suits. While there is broad agreement on the need for improvements, many uncertainties remain. What are the...

The debate over class action reform has long suffered from a lack of theoretical and institutional context. Much attention is lavished on the technical details of competing reform proposals, with little recognition that those proposals often reflect widely divergent--though rarely articulated--assumptions about the general purposes of liability law (for example,...

Professor Theodore Eisenberg will discuss his new article Attorney’s Fees in Class Action Settlements: An Empirical Study (coauthored with Geoffrey Miller) which argues that attorney’s fees have not been growing over the past decade, contrary to conventional wisdom. Eisenberg’s research suggests that the general assumption that attorneys receive about one-third...