Surber v. Reliance National Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “the attempted distinction between class actions and section 17200 representative actions was essentially a distinction without a difference . . . Like class actions, claims under section 17200 seek relief on behalf of numerous individuals”
• “While a federal court must of course give due credit to the good faith claims of the plaintiff, a court would be remiss in its obligations if it accepted every claim of damages at face value, no matter how trivial the underlying injury” (citation omitted)
• “[D]efendant proffers absolutely 23 no evidence of potential punitive damages other than plaintiff’s March 2000 ‘statement of 24 damages.’ Nor does anything in the record indicate that plaintiff’s $ 1,000,000 estimate is 25 anything but a bold and optimistic prediction.”

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