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· 5/31/1977

East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez

Citations

  • 431 U.S. 395
  • 97 S. Ct. 1891
  • 52 L. Ed. 2d 453
  • 1977 U.S. LEXIS 94
  • 23 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 397
  • 14 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 7578
  • 14 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1505

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  • “A class representative must be part of the class and possess the same interest and suffer the same injury as the class members.”
  • “As this Court has repeatedly held, a class representative must be part of the class.... ”
  • “class representative must be part of the class and ‘possess the same interest and suffer the same injury’ as the class members”
  • “[S]uits alleging racial or ethnic discrimination are often by their very nature class suits, involving classwide wrongs.”
  • “a class representative must be part of the class and ‘possess the same interest and suffer the same injury’ as the class members”
  • “A class representative must be part of the class and possess the same interest and suffer the same injury as the class members.”

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Judges: Stewart

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