The latest issue of the Federalist Society’s Class Action Watch has many articles of interest to Overlawyered readers:

• William E. Thomson & Kahn A. Scolnick on the Exxon Shipping case;
• Jimmy Cline on Arkansas’s disregard for class action certification standards;
• Jim Copland on the “Colossus” class action;
• Laurel Harbour on the New Jersey Supreme Court decision on medical monitoring class actions;
• Lyle Roberts on lead-counsel selection in securities class actions;
• Mark A. Behrens & Frank Cruz-Alvarez on the lead paint public nuisance decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court; and
• Andrew Grossman, extensively citing to Overlawyered and my brief in discussing the Grand Theft Auto class action settlement rejection.

Filed under: Arkansas, class action settlements, class actions, Exxon Shipping v. Baker, Federalist Society, forum shopping, Grand Theft Auto, lead paint, medical monitoring, New Jersey, punitive damages, Rhode Island, Ted Frank