Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, in considering a proposal to certify a class, the district court’s discretion is “bounded by the relevant provisions of the Federal Rules”
• holding that district court abused its discretion in issuing order pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 23, thereby avoiding constitutional challenge to order
• holding that, in considering a proposal to certify a class, the district court's discretion is \bounded by the relevant provisions of the Federal Rules\
• recognizing that a court may, in appropriate circumstances, restrict communications between a party and members of a class or a putative class
• holding that a district court may not freely restrict communications between class members and class counsel
• holding that an order limiting communication with a class should “reflect a weighing of the need for a limitation and the potential interference with the rights of the parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).