No. 24A340

Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Nicholas DeFries, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-10-09
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Experienced Counsel
Tags: american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action class-certification employment-discrimination statute-of-limitations
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether courts should resolve ambiguity in a class definition by presumptively applying American Pipe tolling unless a defendant can definitively prove the plaintiffs were unambiguously excluded from the putative class

Docket Entries

2024-10-10
Application (24A340) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until December 5, 2024.
2024-10-07
Application (24A340) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 21, 2024 to December 5, 2024, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

Union Pacific Railroad Company
Thomas Henderson Dupree Jr.Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Petitioner
Thomas Henderson Dupree Jr.Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Petitioner