Reyes Mercado v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “proximate causation often cannot be resolve[d] on a class-wide basis in the case of exposure to a chemical” and that “class certification is often denied in such cases”
• collecting cases involving a single incident or cause of harm where certification was granted
• collecting cases involving a single incident or cause of harm where certification was granted
• denying certification of Rule 23(b)(3) subclass injured by gasoline spill because “the disparities in the injuries, and the questions of whether the gasoline caused such injuries” could not satisfy predominance requirement
• “trying each individual plaintiffs action separately would only lead to wasteful repetition”
• “[C]ourts have held that the law of the transferee circuit controls pretrial issues such as whether the court has subject matter . . . jurisdiction over the action, or whether the cases should be remanded to state court because the cases were not properly removed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).