In Re School Asbestos Litigation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing the duty of courts to regulate “communications that mislead or otherwise threaten to create confusion and to influence the threshold decision whether to remain in the class” and “communications that seek or threaten to influence the choice of remedies’
• “Misleading communications to class members concerning the litigation pose a serious threat to the fairness of the litigation process, the adequacy of representation and the administration of justice generally.”
• in applying collateral order doctrine, court holds that loss of right to engage freely in public communications is irreparable injury
• in applying collateral order doctrine, court holds that loss of right to engage freely in public communications is irreparable injury
• booklet distributed by association of corporate defendants was misleading because of purported objectivity and neutrality and its failure to indicate the authors’ involvement in the litigation
• “Rule 23(d) does not ... require a finding of actual harm; it authorizes the imposition of a restricting order to guard against the ‘likelihood of serious abuses.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).