As Judge Posner explained, a “commonality in damages” requirement: It is for these reasons that federal courts have rejected such a “commonality in damages” requirement for class certification. Business owners financially injured by the BP oil spill all had different losses but all were financially injured by the same corporate misconduct. They include recent successful class actions brought over bank and credit card abuses, where the same corporate policy resulted in customers being cheated out of various amounts of money home and mortgage loan abuses antitrust violations, where class actions have recovered millions for small businesses in varying amounts from illegal price-fixing cartels illegal for-profit colleges practices refusals by companies to properly pay workers many types of product defects and denial of insurance benefits. However, it is worth mentioning a few examples. There are far too many other examples to list here of recent, important class actions that would fail to meet this bill’s “scope of injury” requirement and that never would have gone forward under H.R. In a party-line vote, the committee refused. John Conyers offered an amendment to exempt civil rights cases from the bill’s reach. It is notable that during the bill’s June 24 House Judiciary Committee mark-up, Rep. Certainly, many civil rights, discrimination and employment class actions, including cases involving refusals by companies to properly pay workers, would not satisfy these criteria. However, a new requirement that every individual in a class have an injury of the same “scope,” proof of which must be established before the case can even proceed as a class, will sound the death knell for most class actions.Ĭlasses inherently include a range of affected individuals, and virtually never does every member of the class suffer the same “scope” of injury from the same wrongdoing. 23, which requires that the class as a whole have the same type of injury stemming from the same unlawful conduct. (The word “scope” replaced the word “extent” found in the bill’s earlier version, but this is a distinction without a difference.) Class members must already meet common requirements spelled out in F.R.C.P. While a few modifications have been made to the bill since it was first introduced, what has not changed is the requirement that every person in a class have “an injury of the same type and scope” before the case can proceed. The undersigned groups write in strong opposition to Sec.

1927, the 'Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2015.' Section 2 of this bill would effectively eviscerate consumer, antitrust, employment and civil rights class actions.

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