Kohen v. Pacific Investment Management Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that only one named plaintiff with standing is necessary to certify a class
• holding that “one named plaintiff with standing … is all that is necessary”
• explaining that determining which parties suffered net damages before class certification would be “putting the cart before the horse in that way would vitiate the economies of class action procedure; in effect the trial would precede the certification”
• noting that defendant was free to “depose a random sample of the class” to determine whether an imper-missibly high portion of the class could not have been harmed by the defendant’s actions and, if so, request decertification of the class
• “[A]s long as one member of a certified class has a plausible claim to have suffered damages, the requirement of standing is satisfied.”
• even when some named plaintiffs may lack standing, one named plaintiff with standing suffices to certify class.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).