Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Watson Standard Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding oral representations no bar to certification where bond salespersons testified to a common sales approach
• certifying class claiming a pyramid investment scheme where plaintiffs alleged that defendants’ agents made similar misrepresentations despite “individual variations” in the alleged misrepresentations
• applying the doctrine where a series of misrepresentations to federal and state regulators enabled bond sales to proceed
• certifying where salespersons testified to having merely repeated misrepresentations made by employer
• certifying where salespersons testified to having merely repeated misrepresentations made by employer
• “Although the representations made to the bond purchasers in this ease were not identical, they were sufficiently uniform to warrant class treatment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).