The U.S. Supreme Court has recently accepted jurisdiction over a number of high-profile cases that implicate significant class action litigation issues. The most recent is the court’s Jan. 20 ruling in Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez.
This opinion resolved the question of whether a federal court defendant can moot a class action lawsuit by serving the representative plaintiff with an offer of judgment, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68, for the entirety of the amount claimed to be owed to the representative plaintiff — but not the total amount claimed to be owed to the entire putative class.
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