Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes

Holding in Rule 23 context that “[w]ithout some glue holding the alleged reasons for all those decisions together, it will be impossible to say that examination of all the class members' claims for relief will produce a common answer”

Small v. Lorillard Tobacco Co.

Holding that where the underlying tort theory fails, "there is no independent tort to provide a basis for liability under . . . concert of action, conspiracy, and aiding and abetting theories"

Gaidon v. the Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America

Holding that vanishing premium sales practices, as pled, "fall within the purview" of the state deceptive business practices statute but do "not constitute a `misrepresentation or material omission' necessary to sustain a cause of action for fraud"

Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties

In Roberts, this Court rejected DHCR's long-standing statutory interpretation and concluded that luxury deregulation was unavailable in any building during receipt of J–51 benefits (13 N.Y.3d at 285–287, 890 N.Y.S.2d 388, 918 N.E.2d 900).

Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp.

Holding that where, in an oral examination by respondents' counsel, petitioner, an immigrant with practically no formal education and limitcd knowledge of the English language, showed that she did not understand the complaint, Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b) did not justify dismissal of petitioner's case merely because petitioner was uneducated about the nature of the lawsuit

Iglesias-Mendoza v. La Belle Farm, Inc.

Holding that questions of liability concerning whether class members were supposed to be paid the minimum wage and for overtime "are about the most perfect questions for class treatment"

Thoreson v. Penthouse Intl

Relying on expressio unius, statutory language, and legislative history to foreclose expansion of listed damages remedies

Sperry v. Crompton Corp.

Holding that "the connection between the purchaser of tires and the producers of chemicals used in the rubbermaking process is simply too attenuated to support" the purchaser's claim of unjust enrichment

City of New York v. Maul

Finding federal jurisprudence persuasive in analyzing issues under CPLR Article 9

Ackerman v. Price Waterhouse

Holding that members of the global class did not meet their burden of “establishing that the relevant choice of law principles w[ould] not ultimately require application of widely divergent laws of multiple jurisdictions”

Rule 23 - Class Actions

Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"

Section 227 - Restrictions on use of telephone equipment

Granting exclusive jurisdiction to federal courts over actions brought by state attorney generals

Section 349 - Deceptive acts and practices unlawful

Granting "any person who has been injured by reason of any violation of this section" the right to "bring an action in his own name"

Section 198 - Costs, remedies

Permitting liquidated damages "unless the employer proves a good faith basis for believing that its underpayment of wages was in compliance with the law"

Section 340 - Contracts or agreements for monopoly or in restraint of trade illegal and void

Declaring as illegal and void contracts, agreements, arrangements, or combinations for monopoly or in restraint of trade

Section 500.13 - Content and form of briefs in normal course appeals