State v. Alarid

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs can meet the typicality requirement where “their injuries derive from a unitary course of conduct by a single system”
• finding that certification of suit against child welfare system is proper under 23(b)(2) where the alleged deficiencies “stem from central and systemic failure”
• noting that a named plaintiff would properly represent a subclass where they were “aggrieved under” the “discrete legal claims which are at issue”
• stating that the adequacy of representation requirement entails two factors: (1) class counsel must be qualified, experienced and generally able to conduct the litigation; and (2
• finding that class members’ claims were sufficiently identical for class certification purposes despite dissimilarities
• certifying under Rule 23(b)(2) class of children seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from systemic failures in child welfare system despite differing harms experienced by class members

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).