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Ocelot II

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1. No. Class actions have very specific and narrow requirements.

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 05:41 PM

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The claims of all parties have to be similar enough as to the law and the facts that they could be tried in a single action, and they have to be so numerous that multiple cases would be duplicative (Rule 23, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure). The facts in all these cases are different enough that certification as a class wouldn't be possible.

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