Calif. High Court Ruling Changes Class Action Landscape

Law360, New York (June 16, 2014, 10:36 AM EDT) -- "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." The California Supreme Court could have been channeling Mark Twain when it rejected, emphatically, the unbridled use of statistical sampling to prove liability in a class action wage and hour case. In a unanimous decision, California's high court in Duran v. U.S. Bank National Association gave the heave-ho to the kind of "trial by formula" that has become a feature of modern-day wage and hour litigation....

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