Catherine Wagner, Anne Marie Sorcinelli, and Jenny Harrison v. The Nutrasweet Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[i]t is clear that a plaintiff may waive a claim under Title VII (and, by extension, under the Equal Pay Act) as part of a voluntary settlement, provided that her consent to the release was voluntary and knowing”
• “Typicality under [FRCP] 23(a)(3) should be determined with reference to the [defendant’s] actions, not with respect to particularized defenses it might have against certain class members.”
• plaintiff waived right to bring a Title VII suit even though it was impossible for plaintiff to discover differences in salary bonuses based on sex
• “Typicality under Rule 23(a) should be determined with reference to [Defendant’s] actions, not with respect to particularized defenses it might have against certain class members.”
• a knowing waiver involves either known claims or claims “that are in general terms predictable”
• “Typicality is based on ... the plaintiffs legal theory, not particularized defenses the defendant may have against certain class members.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).