Catanese v. Unilever

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “in a class action, the classes, and not the class representatives, are compared”
• finding that two putative class actions filed in separate district courts met the same issues requirement even though they involved different state laws
• finding that two putative class actions filed in separate district courts met the same issues requirement even though they involved different state laws
• finding that to establish forum-shopping, typically a plaintiff must establish that the defendant in the second action filed the first action to avoid the second forum.”
• finding the “convenience of parties” factor to weigh in favor of a company defending against multiple putative class action suits in various jurisdictions
• applying first-filed rule to transfer New Jersey suit involving allegations of consumer-protection violations associated with ice cream to California.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).