Class Action Reform: H.B. 472 (2013)

Louisiana

Provides that a class action cannot be maintained if the court would be required to look at the merits of any individual class member’s claim to determine whether or not the individual would fall within the defined class.  Furthermore, at the hearing on the motion to certify a class action, the plaintiff bears the burden of proof.

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