One of the first cases that Justice Neil Gorsuch will hear on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court involves a procedural issue in securities class actions, an area of law that the new justice once criticized as a "free ride to fast riches" for the plaintiffs bar.

To be sure, Gorsuch's views on securities class actions were expressed more than a decade ago while he was a lawyer in private practice representing both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Washington Legal Foundation. While on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, his class action rulings have been largely textualist, not ideological.

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Amanda Bronstad

Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.