Stacey A. Williams, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. General Electric Capital Auto Lease, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• addressing due process considerations of prior class action settlement on collateral attack
• “It is not at all uncommon for settlements to include a global release of all claims past, present, and future, that the parties might have brought against each other.”
• district court may enjoin state-court suit brought by absent class member
• “[P]arties added to a case after the original litigants have filed a consent under [28 17 U.S.C.] § 636(c) must also agree to the submission of the case to the magistrate judge; if 18 they do not, then the case must be returned to a district judge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).