White v. Illinois Central Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “it is settled in this Circuit that … the presence of both purchasers and sellers … will not defeat class action certification when plaintiffs allege that the same unlawful course of conduct affected all members of the proposed class”
• rejecting the argument that conflicts of interest in establishing the fact and extent of any manipulation will arise between spread and hedge traders and the proposed class
• defining proposed class as “[a]ll persons who purchased Comex copper futures contracts between June 24, 1994 and June 15, 1996, inclusive,” except for those affiliated with defendants in that action
• finding superiority where the class was likely to include at least 1500 individuals, but many of whom may not have been damaged to a degree worthy of instituting an individual claim
• collecting cases where class was certified despite “variation in fact among class members”
• collecting cases where class was certified despite “variation in fact among class members”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).