Midwest Marine, Inc. v. Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that although “some of the class representatives remain incarcerated [it] does not affect their interest in vigorously pursuing the claims of the class.”
• finding that exhaustion of administrative remedies by all proposed class members “is irrelevant to the class certification analysis” where class representatives met exhaustion requirement of PLRA
• finding typicality satisfied where, for example, “whether exhaustion .should be excused because administrative remedies were unavailable ... is a question common to all members of the class”
• finding typicality satisfied where, for example, \whether exhaustion should be excused because administrative remedies were unavailable ... is a question common to all members of the class\
• approving separate subclasses for cur- rent and future detainees seeking injunctive relief and present and past detainees seeking monetary relief
• finding the PLRA’s exhaustion requirement satisfied as to the entire class where the class representatives exhausted their administrative remedies as to allegedly unconstitutional conditions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).