577 U.S. 442 (2016) Cited 1,199 times 80 Legal Analyses
Holding "persuasiveness is, in general, a matter for the jury" and not grounds for denying class certification unless "no reasonable juror could have believed" plaintiffs' evidence of an essential element of their claim
Holding that a record consisting of a preliminary report, an amended report, an affidavit prepared to meet the adversary's Daubert challenge, and multiple depositions was sufficient to obviate the need for a Daubert hearing
Holding that "[w]ithout any facts that would establish the allegedly harmful level of exposure . . . Dr. Prellop's opinion regarding diesel exhaust does not establish general causation"
Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 Cited 35,183 times 1237 Legal Analyses
Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"