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Jun 23, 2014

Central District Of California Denies Class Certification — And It Wasn’t Even Close

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Earlier this week, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California sent plaintiffs seeking to represent a putative class a reminder that they must actually be class members before certification will be granted. In Segura v. CRST Van Expedited, Inc., 12-CV-01901 (C.D. Cal. June 16, 2014), the Court simultaneously granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in part and denied the plaintiff’s motion for class certification because he could not satisfy the commonality and typicality requirements.

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