Pruitt v. Litman

How courts have described this case

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• denying motion to sever where plaintiffs allege that defendant employs subjective decision making policy designed to discriminate against African-American employees
• finding commonality requirement satisfied where “the plaintiffs bring forth different incidents of alleged discrimination, [but] they are bound by and share the character of the defendant’s allegedly adverse conduct.”
• where discovery had not yet closed and dispositive motions had not been filed, it was too soon to determine whether the individual claims should be severed for trial
• “All 9 of the specific incidences of discrimination flow from this general policy, or pattern and practice, 10 and therefore are logically related and arise out of the same series of transactions or 11 occurrences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).