Class Actions at SCOTUS: The Term That Wasn’t

By Perry Cooper, Bloomberg BNA

The prognostications from the plaintiffs’ bar were dire. The U.S. Supreme Court could effectively wipe out class actions with the cases it had agreed to hear this term.

But now that the 2015-2016 term is over, some of those same attorneys are singing a different tune.

Samuel Issacharoff, professor of civil procedure and complex litigation at New York University School of Law, deems the top court’s slate of class action cases that concluded in June “the term that wasn’t.”

“People were legitimately predicting that this term included several cases that posed an existential threat to the ...