Fletcher v. Cape Cod Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that court may consider relevant factual materials submitted by the parties on a motion to certify class action
• agreeing with trial judge and adding: “We are unwilling to read into either the rule or the statute the authority for issue certification expressly provided by the drafters of the Federal rule”
• no abuse of discretion where judge “conducted a hearing on the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification [and] considered] relevant factual materials submitted by the parties”
• ‘The typicality requirement may be satisfied by an allegation that the defendant acted consistently toward the members of a putative class”
• A plaintiff representative normally satisfies the typicality requirement with “an allegation that the defendant acted consistently toward the [representative and the] members of a putative class”
• plaintiffs must allege that they are “similarly situated” and have suffered “similar injury”

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