Avedisian v. Ramsey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that commonality and typicality “tend to merge into one another, so that similar considerations animate analysis”
• indicating in dicta that an agreement to arbitrate Title VII claims that calls for plaintiff to pay fees is unenforceable
• analyzing extent to which Congress intended that Title VII rights be alienable in prospective agreements to arbitrate claims in securities dealer class action
• “[O]nly a conflict that goes to the very subject matter of the litigation will defeat a party’s claim of representative status.”
• “settlements can be approved over the preferences of original plaintiffs, because a contrary view would put too much power in a wishful thinker to thwart a result that is in the best interests of others.”
• “the pretrial negotiations and discovery must be sufficiently adversarial that they are not designed to justify a settlement . . . [, but] an aggressive effort to ferret out facts helpful to the prosecution of the suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).