Gerald L. Maatman

Jan 16, 2025 | blogs.duanemorris.com | Gerald L. Maatman

By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.Duane Morris Takeaway: The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA), et al. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), stimulated a flood of claims targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs over the past year.

Jan 16, 2025 | mondaq.com | Gerald L. Maatman

Duane Morris Takeaway: Despiteanother tumultuous year of rulings, the arbitration defenseremained one of the most powerful weapons in the class actiondefense toolkit. A defendant's ability to enforce anarbitration agreement containing a class or collective actionwaiver continues to reign as one of the most impactful defenses interms of shifting the pendulum of class action litigation.

Jan 14, 2025 | openlegalblogarchive.org | Gerald L. Maatman

By: Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.Duane Morris Takeaway: Despite another tumultuous year of rulings, the arbitration defense remained one of the most powerful weapons in the class action defense toolkit. A defendant’s ability to enforce an arbitration agreement containing a class or collective action waiver continues to reign as one of the most impactful defenses in terms of shifting the pendulum of class action litigation.

Jan 14, 2025 | mondaq.com | Gerald L. Maatman

Duane Morris Takeaway: As authors andeditors of our firm's our Class Action Review, we identifiedten (10) key trends in class action litigation over the past year. Trend # 1 focuses on the unprecedented number of massive classaction settlements reached in the last 12 months. Aside from theBig Tobacco settlements nearly two decades ago, 2022, 2023, and2024 have marked the most extensive set of billion-dollar classaction settlements in the history of the American courtsystem.

Jan 9, 2025 | blogs.duanemorris.com | Gerald L. Maatman

By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.Duane Morris Takeaway:  As authors and editors of our firm’s our Class Action Review, we identified ten (10) key trends in class action litigation over the past year. Trend # 1 focuses on the unprecedented number of massive class action settlements reached in the last 12 months.