The following excerpt is from Contracting v. Hanson Aggregates Pac. Sw., Inc., 926 F.3d 528 (9th Cir. 2019):
"[S]tanding is the threshold issue in any suit. If the individual plaintiff lacks standing, the court need never reach the class action issue." Lierboe v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. , 350 F.3d 1018, 1022 (9th Cir. 2003) (quoting 3 HERBERT B. NEWBERG ON CLASS ACTIONS 3:19 (4th ed. 2002)). Our circuit precedent indicates that when a class is certified and the class representatives are subsequently found to lack standing, the class should be decertified and the case dismissed.
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