Under the Supreme Court’s opinion in American Pipe v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974), the pendency of a class action tolls the applicable statute of limitations for class members. In the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, however, precedent held that American Pipe’s tolling of the applicable statutes of limitations for absent class members did ...
Under the Supreme Court’s opinion in American Pipe v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974), the pendency of a class action tolls the applicable statute of limitations for class members. In the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, however, precedent…