Andrei Greenawalt

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Limiting Coercive Speech in Class Actions

114 Yale L.J. 1953 (2005) Courts once routinely banned communications of named parties and their counsel with potential class members, until the Supreme Court, in Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard, called for "specific findings" and a "weighing of interests" before the imposition of such bans. Most courts have interpreted the opinion to require evidence that inappropriate communications have already occurred...