SCOTUS Ruling Doesn’t Limit Nationwide Class Suits: 7th Cir. (1)

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Bristol-Myers Squibb ruling, which limited where companies can be forced to face state court “mass actions,” doesn’t apply to nationwide class actions, the first federal appeals court to address the issue said Wednesday.

“Class actions, in short, are different from many other types of aggregate litigation, and that difference matters,” Chief Judge Diane Wood wrote for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

A split ruling from the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday sidestepped the issue but allowed a wage suit to proceed. The two appeals court rulings, “taken together, are a one-two punch ...