This Is The “Rigorous Analysis” Era Of Class Actions

The short, dense history of the class action lawsuit, which Carlton Fields attorneys D. Matthew Allen and Amanda Arnold Sansone find to have essentially begun in the ’60s as a tool to resolve complex cases and advance social justice. We’ve been through two eras since then, and now we are in the fourth: The “rigorous analysis” era. What’s changed, and what does it mean for defendants?