State of Hawai'i, Department of Public Safety v. Forbes

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that if the defendant’s criticisms were taken into account, “only the final amount of estimated damages would change”; the criticisms thus “do not impeach the ... ultimate holding that damages are capable of common proof on a class-wide basis”
• court's inquiry is whether class claims may be proven on class-wide basis using common proof
• court determined relevant geographic market solely for purposes of class certification and not binding on merits
• court determined relevant geographic market solely for purposes of class certification and not binding on merits
• court’s inquiry is whether class claims may be proven on class-wide basis using common proof
• “we are precluded from addressing any merits inquiry unnecessary to making a Rule 23 determination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).