District of Columbia· 10/9/1998

Pigford v. Glickman

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182 F.R.D. 341
41 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1310
1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16299
1998 WL 723704

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holding that class members are capable of identifying themselves based on whether they had applied for participation in a USDA federal farm program during the specified dates
“That [geographical dispersion] alone is sufficient to establish numerosity, especially where the class members are located in different states.”
“Mere conjecture, without more, is insufficient to establish numerosity, but plaintiffs do not have to provide an exact number of putative class members in order to satisfy the numerosity requirement.”
typicality requirement “is satisfied if each class member’s claim arises from the same course of events that led to the claims of the representative parties and each class member makes similar legal arguments to prove the defendant’s liability”
order on motion for class certification

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