· 4/24/2014
Juanita Stockwell v. City and County of San Francis
Citations
- 749 F.3d 1107
- 88 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 753
- 2014 WL 1623736
- 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 7694
- 97 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 45,055
- 122 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 795
How courts have described this case
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- “[D]emonstrating commonality does not 9 require proof that the putative class will prevail on whatever common question it identifies.”
- finding commonality where the class would “rise and fall together” based 41 USCA4 Appeal: 21-2116 Doc: 60 Filed: 01/24/2023 Pg: 42 of 43 on whether their evidence—a statistical study—showed disparate impact
- “We must police the bounds of our jurisdiction vigorously [concerning Rule 23(f) appeals] as elsewhere.”
- “We must police the bounds of our jurisdiction vigorously here as elsewhere, and so may not ourselves venture into merits issues unnecessary to the Rule 23 issue before us.” (citation omitted)
- “Rule 23(a)(2) requires a single significant question of law 5 or fact.” (cleaned up)
- \[T]here is no tort without an actionable injury caused by the defendant's wrongful act.\
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Judges: Berzon, Clifford, Fisher, Marsha, Raymond, Wallace
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