This GT Newsletter summarizes recent class-action decisions from across the United States. 

Highlights from this issue include:

• First Circuit addresses four questions of first impression relating to CAFA jurisdiction and “home state” and “local controversy” exceptions.
   
• Second Circuit holds class representative’s susceptibility to unique defenses is not a basis for finding lack of adequacy, though it may go to typicality.
   
• Fourth Circuit reverses certification of FLSA class action, finding conclusory allegations of company policies were insufficient to satisfy commonality requirement.
   
• Sixth Circuit vacates class certification based on individualized questions in automotive defect case.
   
• Seventh Circuit affirms decertification of Rule 23(c)(4) issues class for lack of superiority.
   
• Ninth Circuit holds unexecuted damages model sufficient to demonstrate damages are susceptible to common proof at the class certification stage.