In Re American Medical Systems, Inc. Pfizer, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• opining that superiority is lacking where judicial management crisis does not exist and individual trials are possible
• noting that this circuit had found a class of 35 to be sufficient to meet the numerosity requirement
• holdingthat the additional defendants could not be added after original class certification without having time to contest the certification
• finding error when the district judge “gave no serious consideration to [Rule 23(a) ], but simply mimicked the language of the rule”
• distinguishing a single disaster mass tort from a more complex mass tort
• finding certification improper given the absence of evidence that common issues predominated, where the products at issue differed, each plain tiff had a unique complaint, and each received different information and assurances from his treating physician

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).