Dixon-Woods Co. v. Reineke

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a close personal relationship with counsel is especially likely to render a class representative inadequate “where attorneys’ fees will greatly exceed the class representative’s recovery”
• explaining that the “existence of some individualized questions need not destroy commonality”
• rejecting liability for parent company in the absence of sufficient basis for veil piercing or agency liability
• collecting cases and explaining that “courts have denied certification even in cases that involved form contracts where numerous individual inquiries were required to determine whether a breach of the contract could be found”
• superiority satisfied where individual claims of proposed class members appeared too small to warrant individual adjudication
• “[A]ctions that involve form or uniform contracts have been recognized as being well-suited for treatment as a class action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).