A year-long investigation into the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections found there were "many factors" that contributed to the increase in deaths at the jail.
In
Kett v. Mitsubishi Materials
Corporation, 2020 BCSC 1879, Justice Branch dismissed a
certification application because the case was too big to
certify . The case confirms that there are limits to the scale
of class actions-while plaintiffs may create the appearance of
commonality through abstraction, certification will be
inappropriate where individual analyses dominate.
The judgement is also notable for:
limiting the use of BC s
Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act (the
BPCPA ) against parties in a supply
chain that provide components; not finished goods in the form
received by consumers;
requiring plaintiffs counsel to
disclose any relationship between the plaintiff and the firm;