Class Actions Brief Blog

Not every class action court filing in North and South Carolina becomes a full-length post on our blog. Here is a recap of April's filings:

Equifax Information Services v. Soutter, No. 15-172 (4th Cir. Apr. 30, 2015) (petitioning to appeal under Rule 23(f) from Order certifying class in class action regarding Equifax’s alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act).

Western Pennsylvania Electrical Employees Pension Fund v. Tonnesen, No. 15-1468 (4th Cir. Apr. 30, 2015) (docketing appeal from Order dismissing putative class action brought on behalf of purchasers of Triad ...

We all know that an employer’s decision to label certain individuals as “independent contractors” is not dispositive of the legal issue whether they are, in actuality, “employees.” And that issue is complicated further because the definition of “employee” varies from statute to statute. But courts have struggled in deciding whether employment status in a misclassification case can be decided on a class-wide basis. On the one hand, the legal issue is the same: are these folks employees or aren’t they? But, as Justice Scalia cautioned in Wal-Mart, merely stating ...