(Reuters) - The District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, opens new tab on Tuesday that trial judges cannot refuse to certify classes simply by invoking the words “fail-safe,” in a ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit deepened a divide among circuits on Tuesday by holding that judges can't deny class certification based only on a rule against "fail safe" class ...

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 ...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - In almost every federal appellate circuit in the U.S., class action plaintiffs who try to premise their class definition on a defendant’s liability will be bounced out of court ...