commonality requirement
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first heard Nov 2013
last heard 24 Mar
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Legal doctrine requiring common questions of law or fact for class certification
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentBrent WoodwardCalifornia Fifth District Court of Appeal · 5DCA Oral Argument - 2026/03/24 - Mar 24, 2026 · 32:48 · 24 Mar
…Pellin is arguing is that the permission, the discretion that a trial court has to consider the existence of different merits issues in making the class certification decision, that that can be applied, that peak can be taken, so to speak, only with respect to the commonality…
Anthony M. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · Mississippi, Inc. ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp. (12-103... · 47:05 · Nov 2013
…But this is the essential definition, and this one seems to be pointing to a very different kind of suit, one in which there are a hundred individual claims that a hundred people seek to have joined, in which uh a court is going to make a determination about whether those a hundred individual claims have questions of common law and fact.…
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