{"id":4295,"date":"2025-02-21T00:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/could-the-u-s-supreme-court-finally-address-uninjured-class-members\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T00:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:37:27","slug":"could-the-u-s-supreme-court-finally-address-uninjured-class-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/could-the-u-s-supreme-court-finally-address-uninjured-class-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the U.S. Supreme Court Finally Address Uninjured Class Members?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court could finally rule on a key question in class actions, often raised by the defense at the certification stage: What happens when some of the class members haven\u2019t been injured?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>It\u2019s an issue that the Supreme Court has heard before, namely in <i>Tyson Foods Inc. v. Bouaphakeo<\/i> and <i>TransUnion v. Ramirez<\/i>. But those decisions, in 2016 and 2021, sidestepped that broader question, leaving circuit courts of appeal increasingly fractured, former U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, now at Jones Day, wrote in a petition for a writ of certiorari on behalf of Laboratory Corporation of America. His client sought review of a 2024 class certification decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, whose \u201clax approach to certification,\u201d Francisco wrote, \u201charbors fundamental defects.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court could finally rule on a key question in class actions, often raised by the defense at the certification stage: What happens when some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4736,650,143,1419,1865,533,272,4737],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-address","tag-class","tag-court","tag-finally","tag-members","tag-supreme","tag-u-s","tag-uninjured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}