Erie R. v. Oceanic Steam Nav. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the commonality requirement was met even where each plaintiffs recovery may differ based on the number of hours worked
• finding that this Girsh factor was neutral where “there [wa]s no apparent reason why the [c]ourt would decertify or modify [a] class at any time during the litigation”
• finding that this Girsh factor was neutral where “there [wa]s no apparent reason why the [c]ourt would decertify or modify [a] class at any time during the litigation”
• finding that this Girsh factor was neutral where “there [wa]s no apparent reason why the [c]ourt would decertify or modify [a] class at any time during the litigation”
• finding that the commonality requirement was met because “while each Plaintiff’s recovery might be different due to the number of hours that he or she worked without proper compensation,” this resulted from the same wrong perpetrated by the defendant
• finding second Girsh factor to weigh in favor of approval when one objection was filed in class of 441

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).