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The Winter 2010 edition of the CADS Report newsletter is now available.

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The class-action bar has debated the question of email notice for some time.

The Seventh Circuit (Posner, J.) became the second federal circuit to hold that jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) continues if class certification is denied, in Cunningham Charter Corp. v. Learjet, Inc., No. 09-8042.

In Rodriguez v. Hayes et al., No.08-56156, the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s denial of class certification, concluded that none of the alleged bars to class relief raised by the respondents prevented certification, and held that the class met the requirements of Rule 23.