Perspective
Mar. 27, 2012
Individual arbitrations — the class action extinction event
The fate of class actions is in the state Supreme Court's hands. By Prescott W. Littlefield of Kearney Alvarez LLP
Thinking about class actions five years ago is like thinking about the dinosaurs on the Yucatan peninsula 66 million years ago, grazing happily and oblivious of the disaster awaiting them. Suddenly, and without warning, the Chicxulub asteroid forever wiped out the largest land animals ever to roam the Earth. Today, the class action device faces threats such as questions of its real utility (the Honda Civic hybrid litigation comes to min...
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