Brittany Nicole Litchfield v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, under Rule 23, the court must certify a proper class action even if it is certain to fail on the merits
• vacating class certification because the district court relied too heavily on the pleadings and did not break down the claim into its constitutive parts for analysis
• by identifying the elements of a plaintiff’s claims, a court can “better understand the relationship between each claim’s common and individual questions”
• district court erred in certifying class without considering the elements of plaintiff’s claims or defendant’s argument that breach of contract claim would lead to many individual questions regarding damages
• “[A]ny attempt to cast doubt upon the sufficiency of [plaintiff’s proposed classwide evidence] to prove the alleged contractual promises goes to the merits of [his] claims, not to whether common questions exist and predominate.” (citation omitted)

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