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Enemy of the Good: Class Cert Doesn’t Require Perfect Proof, Seventh Circuit Says

By Barry Barnett on January 17, 2012

The Seventh Circuit held last week that a district court set too high a standard for class certification in an antitrust case.

"In essence," the panel ruled, it is important not to let a quest for perfect evidence become the enemy of good evidence." Messner v. Northshore University HealthSystem, No. 10-2514, slip op. 3…

Posted in Antitrust, Class Actions

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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