On Oct. 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided the following issue of first impression: Whether, when assessing the pleading adequacy of a securities class action complaint's ...

Think twice about whether the Class Action Fairness Act’s “local controversy” exception applies to your case. Even if more than two-thirds of the proposed class members are citizens of the forum state ...

In Krasner v. Cedar Realty Trust, et al., — F.4th –, 2023 WL 7517017 (2d Cir. Nov. 14, 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether the securities-related exception to ...

Take advantage of custom exception classes to extend error handling or add meaningful information to the errors thrown by your .Net applications An exception is an ...

If you really want to take full control of the exceptions you pass to your clients, you can write your own Exception class. Here's how to do that, complete with support for additional properties. If ...

Rhode Island's Ethics Commission has the power to investigate all three branches of government for conflicts of interest. The commission has repeatedly found no conflicts of interest when asked to ...

Mootness, as one of the big three justiciability requirements, is a jurisdictional requirement on which judges do not normally postpone adjudication. But in a recent putative class action of ...