In Re Nissan Motor Corporation Antitrust Litigation

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• reasoning that without this information, \an absentee class member lacks an essential fact or in the decisionmaking equation\
• finding that “[n]o peculiar circumstances exist which would warrant a departure from [the] general rule” that “class representatives must be prepared to accept the concomitant responsibility of identifying absentee class members as well as paying the costs of their individual notice”
• weighing a search’s potential advantage in determining the class’s scope against the burden to the producing parties
• “[i]f the initial class notice does not include information on the proposed settlement, however, an absentee class member lacks an essential factor in the decisionmaking equation”
• “Rule 23(d) vests the district court, as manager of the class action, with the appropriate authority to enter whatever orders are necessary to the conduct of the action[.]”
• to comport with due process, “it is not only necessary that the notice reach the parties affected but that it convey the required information”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).