Execu-Tech Business Systems, Inc. v. Appleton Papers Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs seeking class certification are required to demonstrate a methodology which would show injury to members of the class in order to satisfy the predominance element of rule 1.220
• affirming refusal to certify class of fax paper purchasers alleging unfair trade practices since individual issues predominate
• declining to presume pass-through of overcharges “in indirect purchaser cases due to the evidentiary complexities and uncertainties noted in Illinois Brick”
• affirming denial of class certification where record supported trial court’s determination that there was “no reasonable methodology for generalized proof of class-wide impact and damages”
• refusing in indirect purchaser cases to apply a presumption of anti-competitive market injury
• stating the focus of the evidentiary hearing on predominance and manageability is “whether [plaintiffs] had developed or could develop a methodology to show through generalized, class-wide proof that the price fixing impacted each individual class member”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).