Alliance to End Repression v. James M. Rochford, Etc., American Civil Liberties Union v. Griffin B. Bell

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• agreeing that class definitions must be definite enough that the class can be ascertained
• finding that classes defined by the defendants’ conduct is sufficiently definite
• affirming certification of class that included organizations that “hereafter may be ... subjected to or threatened by” practice sought to be enjoined
• certifying class in which defendants’ conduct was characterized as, inter alia, harassment, coercion, and infiltration
• affirming certification of Rule 23(b)(2) class alleging Chicago police practice of dossier collection, surveillance, harassment, physical and verbal coercion and summary punishment violated Fourth and Fifth Amendments
• finding Rule 23(b)(2) met despite “individual qualities of [the] suit” because of “pattern or practice charac- teristic of defendants’ conduct that is generally applicable to the class” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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