Ball v. Cook County School District

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s inability to weed out a small number of non-class members from notice should not be a limitation to proper notice
• agreeing with the plaintiff that “because liability has already been determined, defendant bears the cost of notice to the class”
• ordering the defendant to “pay for the cost of notice,” noting that “liability has already been determined” and that the defendant did not “contest that it bears the cost of notice”
• requiring notice to each person on list in defendant’s possession where list was approximately 25 percent overinclusive but “approximately three-quarters of the notices sent to the names on the proposed list would result in notice to all class members”
• requiring notice to each 25 person on list in defendant's possession where list was approximately 25 percent 26 overinclusive but “approximately three-quarters of the notices sent to the names on the 27 1 proposed list would result in notice to all class members”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).