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LrsrEn BrucnaeNProfessor of Larv, Cardozo Law School atYeshiva UniversityVisiting Scholat Manhattan Institute Center for lrgal Poiicy

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THpoooRE H. "TED" FRANKFounder and President, Center for Class Action Fairness

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RosrRr E. NonroN IIVice President, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

Former Assistant General Counsel, Chrysler

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JerraEs R. CopraNoDirector and Senior Feliow, Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Poliry

In recent years, class action practice in the United States has been in flux. The 2005 Class Action Fairness Act established increased federal jurisdictionover multistate class actions. ln Wal-Mart u. Dukes and Comcast u. Behrend, the Supreme Court placed stricter limits over class certification standards, and

in AT&T Mobility u. Concepcion and American Exprey u. Italian Cohrs, the Coun ruled enforceable arbitration clauses that preclude class-action remedies.

'lo comment on modern class action practice, the Manhattan Institute is happy to featurc its own Ted Frank, who has been at the forefront of the modernclass action debate, as the president of the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF), which he founded in 2009 (and which is unaffiliated with theManhattan Institute). CCAF challenges unfair class-action settlements and in a short period of time has won seven federal appellate coun decisions outof nine final decisions. On November 4,2013, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear one ofCCAF's most publicizedcases, Marek u. I-ane, in whichFacebook settled a class action without paying any relief to plaintilfs, merely paying the attorneys and establishing a $6.5 mtllion cy pres'award; arypically,

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