1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i UPDATE: Class Actions are Back at the Supreme Court: Statutory Time Limits and “Serial Relitigation” of Class Certification Updated June 13, 2018 UPDATE: On June 11, 2018, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed
2、 the Ninth Circuit in China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh. In an opinion by Justice Ginsburg for eight of the Justices, the Court concluded that equitable tolling of statutes of limitation should not apply to subsequent class actions. The Court explained that the American Pipe rule, which provides that a c
3、lass suit will toll the running of a statute of limitations for members of the class that either intervene in existing class suits or file individual suits after the court has found a suit inappropriate for class treatment, does not apply to subsequent class actions. The Court noted that a contrary
4、rule would undermine judicial efficiency by allowing class claimants to serially re-litigate class actions, allowing class plaintiffs “limitless bites at the apple.” Justice Sotomayor concurred in the judgment, but argued that the Courts limitation on American Pipe tolling should only have been appl
