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| Practice Areas | Litigation Department; Class Action; Complex Commercial Litigation; Media and First Amendment | | | Education | University of Chicago, J.D., cum laude, 1983, University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S., 1980 | | | Admitted | 1983, Illinois; 1984, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois | |
| Memberships | American Bar Association; Chicago Bar Association; Seventh Circuit Bar Association. | | | Born | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 9, 1958 | | | Biography | Order of the Coif. Comment Editor, University of Chicago Law Review, 1982-1983. Author: Comment, "Inflation, Productivity and the Total Offset Method of Calculating Damages for Lost Future Earnings," 49 University of Chicago Law Review, 1003, 1983. Co-Author: "Ketchum v. Bryne: the Hard Lessons of Discriminatory Redistricting in Chicago," 64 Chicago-Kent Law Review 497, 1988. Law Clerk, Judge Antonin Scalia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1983-1984. | | | ISLN | 908779787 | |
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CAFA Removal Does Not Require Consent Of All DefendantsMichael T. Brody, February 10, 2009 In United Steel, Paper & Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing Energy, Allied Industrial & Service Workers International Union v. Shell Oil Co., No. 08-56672, 2008 WL 5143873 (9th Cir. Dec. 9, 2008), the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court and held that removal in a multi-defendant action...
CAFA Trumps Securities Act's Anti-Removal ProvisionMichael T. Brody, February 10, 2009 Expressly splitting from the Ninth Circuit's view, the Seventh Circuit has held in Katz v. Gerardi, No. 08-8031, 2009 WL 18137 (7th Cir. Jan. 5, 2009), that all securities class actions covered by the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA") are removable to Federal Court, subject only...
Counterclaim Defendant May Not Remove Class ActionMichael T. Brody, February 10, 2009 In a case of first impression, the Fourth Circuit ruled that a party joined as a defendant to a counterclaim may not remove a class action to federal court solely because the counterclaim satisfies the jurisdictional requirements of the Class Action Fairness Act.
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