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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

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Scott

Does this case further muddle the separation between merits and certification? If merits can be addressed before or after certification, why not simultaneous with certification? It may be an interesting opinion, but it is also troubling. I have this sense that that the class certification process is going to get murkier in California.

Scott

Does this case further muddle the separation between merits and certification? If merits can be addressed before or after certification, why not simultaneous with certification? It may be an interesting opinion, but it is also troubling. I have this sense that that the class certification process is going to get murkier in California.

Kimberly

Yes, I thought about that too. The big question decided by Linder was whether or not a plaintiff is required to prove that the case has merit as a prerequisite to class certification. Linder said no. Fireside Bank holds that a plaintiff may, but is not required to, move for summary judgment (or for judgment on the pleadings) before moving for class certification. If a defendant moves for summary judgment before class certification, that means that the defendant has waived any "one-way intervention" due process argument. That was true even before Fireside Bank, and defendants waived the "one-way intervention" rule all the time. Allowing a defendant to seek summary judgment before class certification is a far cry from requiring the plaintiff to prove the merits of the case as an element of class certification. That is because the summary judgment process has built-in procedural safeguards that the class certification process lacks.

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