{"id":667,"date":"2014-07-22T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=667"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:08:52","slug":"2-plaintiff-class-must-treated-certified-purposes-precertification-motion-summary-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/trial\/2-plaintiff-class-must-treated-certified-purposes-precertification-motion-summary-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"(2) PLAINTIFF CLASS MUST BE TREATED AS CERTIFIED FOR PURPOSES OF A PRECERTIFICATION MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Supreme Court held this term that when a defendant files a motion for summary judgment before the plaintiff class is certified, the court must treat the case as though it were certified as a class action. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/12-248,%2012-249.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Long v. Dell, Inc<\/em>., No. 2012-248-Appeal<\/a> at 10-11. Such a rule is consistent with the Court\u2019s summary judgment jurisprudence, which requires the court to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. <em>Id<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 By treating a case as a certified class action at the motion for summary judgment stage, the court may consider the injury or damages sustained by the class, and is not restricted to considering only the injury or damages of the named plaintiff. <em>Id<\/em>. at 11 (noting that \u201cif the class is treated as certified, for purposes of viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party on summary judgment, an inference of class-wide injury should be drawn when competent evidence permits\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Supreme Court held this term that when a defendant files a motion for summary judgment before the plaintiff class is certified, the court must treat the case as though it were certified as a class action. Long v. Dell,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[68,88,14],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trial","tag-class-action","tag-precertification-motion-for-summary-judgment","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}