Elgin Nat. Watch Co. v. Elgin Razor Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \'[a]n amendment to a pleading is futile if the proposed claim could not withstand a motion to dismiss. . . .'\ (quoting Lucente v. Int'l Bus. Machs. Corp., 310 F.3d 243, 258 (2d Cir. 2002) (other citation omitted))
• certifying a class defined, in part, as persons who “were sent a collection letter in a form materially identical or substantially similar to the form letter sent by the defendant to the plaintiff’
• “[T]he [pjlaintiff and class members will set forth the same claims based on the alleged FDCPA violations in the form letters.”
• “First, the Plaintiffs counsel have extensive experience in litigating matters under the FDCPA both in class actions and in individual suits.”
• “[Generally, courts will find a class sufficiently numerous when it comprises forty or more members.”
• “[T]he amount of each class members individual claims is very small so it is not likely that any of them would have a specific interest in individually controlling the prosecution of the action.”

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