VLT Plaintiffs Still Waiting to Have Certification Hearing

The certification hearing, which decides whether an action can proceed as a class action or not, is supposed to be the first order of business.  The present VLT class action was issued in December 2009.  Right now, we await a decision of the case management judge as to whether the third party manufacturers brought into the proceeding by Atlantic Lottery Corporation have full rights of participation at the certification hearing.  So it goes.

I can only hope that we get to argue certification sometime this year.  In the meantime, as a recent commentator argues ALC continues to exploit problem gamblers.