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M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CTR., v. NOVAK

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
The representative plaintiff's lack of individual standing to bring suit disqualifies him from acting as class representative and precludes the trial...

CRUZ v. FARQUHARSON

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Immigration Law
Where plaintiffs sued the INS alleging that petitions under 8 USC 1154 were not being processed, and INS subsequently processed the petitions, the...

HICKS v. KAUFMAN & BROAD HOME CORP.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts
For purposes of determining whether common question exists for a class action, proof of breach of warranty does not require proof of malfunction but...

WERSHBA v. APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
A California court may properly apply California statutes to non-California members of a nationwide class where the defendant is a California...

PECARSKY v. GALAXIWORLD.COM LTD.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Securities Law
Because a corporation may not appear except through an attorney, defendant corporation's failure to obtain representation of an ongoing complex action...

IN RE: CENDANT CORP. LITIGATION

Class Actions, Securities Law
Where the restriction on sale of appellants' stock emanated solely from the quantity of shares they received as a result of the merger and not in any...

SZABO v. BRIDGEPORT MACHS., INC.

Class Actions
Because issues of commonality must be shown rather than presumed, questions about the viability of a nationwide class justify serious consideration...

GRIFFITH v. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, L.L.C.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
Appellants motion to intervene in a class-action suit in order to modify a protective order and settlement agreement would be denied where modifying...

VOLLMER v. PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
Where movant does not adequately articulate why his interests are not sufficiently represented by class counsel, his motion to intervene under Federal...

THOMAS v. POWELL

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
Where class plaintiffs attempted to relitigate settlement negotiation matters in state court that federal district court had already deemed to be a...