Class Certification Denied In Suit Over Online Membership Program Enrollments

Mealey's (March 19, 2019, 11:46 AM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge on March 15 found multiple problems in a plaintiff’s motion to certify three classes in his lawsuit against the operator of several online coupon services, concluding that his claims would not be typical of all of the proposed class members and finding that individualized fact finding is necessary to determine matters of users’ reliance on membership sign-up representations and the statute of limitations (Kevin Park v. Webloyalty.com Inc., et al., No. 3:12-cv-01380, S.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42887)....