Parker v. Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that (b)(2) classes may be certified where “injunctive or declaratory relief sought would be both reasonably necessary and appropriate were the plaintiffs to succeed on the merits”
• noting that aggregation of statutory damages in a class action suit might implicate due process “not to prevent [class] certification, but to . . . reduce the aggregate damage award”
• finding conclusions with respect to class certification premature where there has been “no class certification motion filed” or “class discovery”
• reviewing a district court’s order granting defen- dant’s motion to deny class certification but vacating that order because the district court had not permitted plaintiffs to conduct limited discovery
• “[I]t may be that in a sufficiently serious case the due process clause might be invoked, not to prevent certification, but to nullify that [disproportionate] effect and reduce the aggregate damage award”
• “[A] party seeking the protection of the court via a blanket protective 15 order typically does not make the ‘good cause’ showing required by Rule 26(c) with respect to any 16 particular document.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).