Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes

Holding in Rule 23 context that “[w]ithout some glue holding the alleged reasons for all those decisions together, it will be impossible to say that examination of all the class members' claims for relief will produce a common answer”

Amchem Prods., Inc. v. Windsor

Holding that courts are "bound to enforce" Rule 23's certification requirements, even where it means decertifying a class after they had reached a settlement agreement and submitted it to the court for approval

Mullane v. Central Hanover Tr. Co.

Holding that due process requires a hearing "appropriate to the nature of the case"

Hanlon v. Chrysler Corp.

Holding that " common nucleus of facts and potential legal remedies dominate[d]" over "idiosyncratic differences between state consumer protection laws" where a nationwide class of minivan buyers’ claims turned on "questions of [the manufacturer’s] prior knowledge of the [vehicle’s] deficiency, the design defect, and a damages remedy"

Zinser v. Accufix Research Inst., Inc.

Holding that a putative class did not meet the requirements of Rule 23(b) before discussing the elements of Rule 23.

Churchill Village v. General Electric

Holding that approval of a settlement that received 45 objections and 500 opt-outs out of 90,000 class members was proper

Armstrong v. Davis

Holding that " Garrett makes clear that . . . there is no barrier to the injunction against Nielson in his official capacity as Secretary of the Board [under the ADA]."

Wolin v. Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC

Holding that a putative class action satisfied predominance because the allegations were susceptible to proof by generalized evidence

Officers for Justice v. Civil Serv. Comm'n

Holding a settlement must stand or fall in its entirety because a district court cannot "delete, modify or substitute certain provisions"

Lane v. Facebook, Inc.

Holding that Rule 23(e) "does not require detailed analysis of the statutes or causes of action forming the basis for the plaintiff class' claims, and it does not require an estimate of the potential value of those claims"

Rule 23 - Class Actions

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"

Section 17200 - Unfair competition defined

Prohibiting unlawful business practices

Section 2510 - Definitions

Defining "[i]nvestigative or law enforcement officer" as an officer "empowered by law to conduct investigations of or to make arrests for [certain] offenses . . . and any attorney authorized by law to prosecute or participate in the prosecution of such offenses"

Section 1750 - Title of act

Section 17500 - Untrue or misleading advertising

Requiring action that originated in California to effect consumers in another state

Section 1638 - Language governs interpretation

Governing interpretation of contracts

Section 1715 - Notifications to appropriate Federal and State officials

Providing list of information required to be included with the CAFA notice

Section 1639 - Intention ascertained from writing

Providing in part: "When a contract is reduced to writing, the intention of the parties is to be ascertained from the writing alone, if possible"

Section 1572 - Actual fraud

Imposing statutory duty on contracting parties to refrain from making "promise without any intention of performing it"

Section 2707 - Civil action

Granting relief to those "aggrieved by any violation of this chapter in which the conduct constituting the violation is engaged in with a knowing or intentional state of mind"