Lynne A. Carnegie, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Household International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant who urges a court to certify a class for settlement, and prevails, may later contest certification for litigation if the settlement fails, but only as to manageability
• holding that class consisting of persons allegedly defrauded by failure of banks and tax preparers to reveal that tax preparer was engaged in self-dealing was properly certified because RICO fraud claims could be separated into common liability claims and individual injury claims
• explaining that one option available to the district courts for solving problems created by the presence in a class action litigation of individual damages issues is to decertify the class after the liability trial
• noting that “[t]he realistic alternative to a class action is not 17 million individual suits, but zero individual suits” because of litigation costs
• Noting that “[t]he realistic alternative to a class action is not 17 million individual suits, but zero individual suits, as only a lunatic or fanatic sues for $30.”
• stating that Second, Fourth, and Fifth Circuits require direct reliance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).