Sitton v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• vacating a class-certification trial plan because its effect was to “eliminate causation as an element of plaintiffs’ bad faith and Consumer Protection Act [(ch. 19.86 RCW)] claims”
• vacating a class-certification trial plan because its effect was to \eliminate causation as an element of plaintiffs' bad faith and Consumer Protection Act [(chapter 19.86 RCW)] claims\
• “Bifurcation does not violate the Seventh Amendment unless the questions sought to be bifurcated are so interwoven that one cannot be submitted independently of the other without confusion and uncertainty.”
• “courts have a variety of procedural options to reduce the burden of resolving individual damage issues, including bifurcated trials, use of subclasses or masters, [or] pilot or test cases with selected class members”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).