Boston Packaging Machinery Co. v. Woodman Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that commonality was not satisfied in proposed medical monitoring class because all elements of a Florida medical monitoring claim involve individualized issues
• finding that this element of a Florida medical monitoring claim “is likely to be an individualized matter” because it depended on each class members’ history of drug usage
• holding ascertainability not established when “the only evidence likely to be offered in many instances will be the putative class member’s uncorroborated claim that he or she used the product”
• addressing whether the class definition would require individualized determinations before addressing the Rule 23 requirements
• declining class certification in part because any efficiency gained by deciding the common elements will be lost when separate trials are required for each class member in order to determine each member’s entitlement to the requested relief
• declining class certification because “any efficiency gained by deciding the common elements will be lost when separate trials are required for each class member in order to determine each member’s entitlement to the requested relief’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).