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Labor/Employment

Jan. 12, 2012

Class actions: One step forward after two steps back

Score one for employees in the fight over wage and hour class actions. By Dennis Moss and H. Scott Leviant of Spiro Moss


By Dennis Moss and H. Scott Leviant


Recent reports of the death of wage and hour class actions are premature. To be sure, the last two years saw class actions stagger under the punishing combination of blows delivered by Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp, 130 S.Ct. 1758 (2010), AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S.Ct. 2541 (2011). While Wal-Mart elevated...

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