The following excerpt is from Jones v. San Diego Metro. Transit Sys., Case No.: 314cv01778-KSC (S.D. Cal. 2017):
law or fact be common, rather it is construed liberally. Hanlon v. Chrysler Corp., 150 F.3d 1011, 1019 (9th Cir. 1998). Either "shared legal issues with divergent factual predicates" or "a common core of salient facts coupled with disparate legal remedies within the class" satisfies this criterion. Id.
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