Basco v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that individual issues predominated where the plaintiffs would be required to prove the terms of and breach of oral contracts
• noting that federal rule requires class action be the superior method to resolve dispute
• rejecting plaintiffs’ proposed use of statistics to establish breach of contract action or amount of damages
• finding that in breach of contract action, typicality prong was met where all members were subject to same pay pattern and practice by company, despite fact that damages and circumstances surrounding contract formation would be different for each plaintiff
• denying class certification because individualized issues predominated in claim of breach of oral contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).