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”

Gen. Tel. Co. of Sw. v. Falcon

Holding that named plaintiff must prove “much more than the validity of his own claim”; the individual plaintiff must show that “the individual's claim and the class claims will share common questions of law or fact and that the individual's claim will be typical of the class claims,” explicitly referencing the “commonality” and “typicality” requirements of Rule 23

Cooper v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Holding that members of a class of black employees of a Federal Reserve Bank could maintain separate actions against the bank under Title VII

Vinole v. Countrywide Home Loans

Holding that district court abused its discretion in certifying class by relying on uniform exemption policy "to the near exclusion of other factors"

Hilao v. Estate of Ferdinand Marcos

Holding that procedural due process does not require the jury to be instructed that "a reasonable relationship must exist between the amounts of compensatory and exemplary damages"

Molski v. Gleich

Holding that decisions based on per se rules are not appropriate because they nullify the discretion vested in the district court through Rule 23

In re Wells Fargo Home Mortg

Holding that class certification may be denied when "a fact-intensive inquiry into each potential plaintiff's employment situation" is required

Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Arguing that inadmissible expert testimony cannot be used to meet Rule 23

Dunbar v. Albertson's, Inc.

Upholding denial of class certification where "the court's decision was not based on the mere presence of individual liability issues," but "on the nature of those issues as shown by defendant's evidence"

Marlo v. United Parcel Serv., Inc.

Decertifying class because plaintiff relied on purportedly common evidence that was "neither reliable nor representative of the class"

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 1194 - Recovery by employee in civil action regardless of agreement to receive lesser wage

Authorizing an employee receiving less than the legal overtime compensation to recover the unpaid balance, interest, attorney's fees, and costs of suit in a civil action

Section 510 - Eight hour workday; compensation for overtime

Requiring employers to pay 1.5 times the "regular rate of pay" for overtime

Rule 8.520 - Briefs by parties and amici curiae; judicial notice

Rule 8.504 - Form and contents of petition, answer, and reply