Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. Bewal, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• involving European plaintiffs who purchased shares of a French company traded on the Paris Bourse
• collecting cases noting “the numerosity requirement may be satisfied by a showing that a large number of shares were outstanding and traded during the relevant period”
• limiting a class “to foreign shareholders whose courts, in the unlikely event of successive litigations, are likely to give res judicata effect to any judgment herein”
• “There is no requirement, express or implied, that class members, foreign or domestic, must appear or be served in order to be bound.”
• “The Court has the authority under Rule 23(c)(4)(B) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to divide a class into subclasses.”
• “The determination of whether a particular action is manageable is ‘peculiarly’ within the discretion of the district court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).