Universal Film Exchanges, Inc. v. Swanson

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “individual issues of whether a subclass member’s claim is time-barred cannot predominate, because persons that are time-barred will not be class members” due to the class definition
• seeking certification under Rule 23(b)(3), which would require individual notice so that putative class members could exercise opt-out rights
• exact number of class members not required as long as plaintiffs make good faith estimate
• “The parties should not have to delve into the merits of the case to determine membership in the class.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).