Holding that the district court applied "too stringent a standard" in evaluating predominance when it made uniformity of price increases a condition for class certification
Finding arguable defense on issue of consent where plaintiff posted fax number on website with phrase "contact us" and authorized the publication of its fax number in a directory aimed at firms in the building industry, which authorized the other subscribers to the publication, like defendant, to "communicate" with it, including via fax
Holding that "the determinative question of whether consent can be established via class-wide proof must . . . be answered in the negative" because the plaintiff "failed to advance a viable theory of generalized proof to identify those persons, if any, to whom BioPay may be liable under the TCPA."
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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"