7th Circuit Reaffirms That Bristol-Myers Doesn’t Apply To Federal Class Actions

Mealey's (March 17, 2020, 1:27 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court doesn’t “apply to nationwide class actions filed in federal court under a federal statute,” a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 11 in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case (Florence Mussat, M.D., S.C., et al. v. IQVIA, Inc., et al., No. 19-1204, 7th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 7560)....