Joint Juice Ruling Fails to Quench Thirst for Guidance on Class-Wide Statutory Damages Awards
A few months ago, we previewed an imminent decision that would address, for the first time, a long-unsettled question for class actions brought under New York’s General Business Law (“GBL”): can a class of consumers obtain class-wide statutory damages under the GBL in federal court, even though the New York legislature has expressly prohibited statutory damages for GBL class actions brought in state court?