Tracker Marine, L.P. v. Ogle

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \the district court is required to know which law will apply before it makes its predominance determination\
• noting that “[t]he novelty and complexity of these issues counsels against any sort of mass trial until some of them are settled”
• overruling Weatherly to extent that Weatherly allowed postponement of choice-of-law questions until after certification and also holding, contrary to Weatherly , that class representatives bear burden of presenting analysis of differing states’ laws
• “The class representatives bear the burden of establishing the prerequisites for class treatment, so they must present an extensive analysis of state law evaluating any differences.”
• applying Texas DTPA to suit against Missouri-based corporation
• applying Texas DTPA to suit against Missouri-based corporation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).