RW Files Merits Amicus Brief Supporting Respondents in Labcorp v. Davis (S. Ct.)

Yesterday, Russell & Woofter filed the Amicus Brief of Legal Historians and Scholars of Representative Litigation in Support of Respondents on behalf of professors Brandon L. Garrett (Duke), David Marcus (UCLA), and Daniel Wilf-Townsend (of Daniel Woofter’s alma mater Georgetown law) in Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings, d/b/a Labcorp v. Davis, No. 24-304 (S. Ct.). The brief offers historical context showing that today’s class actions follow the centuries-old tradition of bifurcated representative suits in equity—resolving shared questions first, then figuring out who is entitled to what second.