John D. Szabo, Doing Business as Zatron v. Bridgeport MacHines Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that choice-of-law issues affect both manageability and commonality and “thus the propriety of class certification”
• recognizing that differences in the representations made to members of the putative class would defeat commonality, which necessarily would defeat predominance
• holding that “it is unnecessary to certify a nationwide class. Each [class member] has a substantial claim, of the sort that could be, and often is, pursued independently.”
• holding that district court was required to make \preliminary inquiry into the merits\ because it was impossible to assess \the difficulties likely to be encountered in the management of [the] class action\
• holding that district court was required to make “preliminary inquiry into the merits” because it was impossible to assess “the difficulties likely to be encountered in the management of [the] class action”
• noting that class certification \puts a bet-your-company decision to [defendant's] managers and may induce a substantial settlement even if the customers' position is weak\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).