Daugharty v. Gladden

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the complexity of causation questions in personal injury suits is much greater than for property damage suits
• acknowledging district court’s ability to decertify class “if the issues it has classified as substantial later appear insufficient to justify the class procedure”
• highlighting that the \ `threshold of commonality is not high' \
• highlighting that the \ `threshold of commonality is not high' \
• explaining that class certification “must be decided against the background of the asbestos scene, an unparalleled situation in American tort law” while approving the district court’s “willingness to attempt to cope with an unprecedented situation in a somewhat novel fashion”
• determining causation in a property damage class action is more straightforward than in a personal injury class action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).