Last month, the D.C. Circuit deepened a circuit split on the issue of fail-safe classes. The decision, In re White, 64 F.4th 302 (D.C. Cir. 2023), rejected a categorical rule against all fail-safe ...

Aug 24 (Reuters) - In almost every federal appellate circuit in the U.S., class action plaintiffs who try to premise their class definition on a defendant’s liability will be bounced out of court ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to examine whether class certification is automatically barred when the proposed class definition is "fail safe"—or when membership hinges on a case's outcome on ...

A “fail-safe” mechanical failure jams the United States military’s chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war. A contemporary remake of Sidney Lumet's 1964 Cold War thriller ...

The U.S. nuclear navy, created by Admiral Hyman Rickover, was an astonishing bureaucratic and cultural revolution in modern military history. Rickover’s belief in superior engineering, continuous ...