Legal Opinion
Bartelson v. Dean Witter & Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 20, 1980No. Civ. A. No. 78-839PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.
I. Preliminary Statement
This is an employment discrimination case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. in which we are called upon to make a class action determination. The case raises interesting questions about the import of the typicality requirement of Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(a)(3), specifically whether a white female can represent a class that includes minority groups and whether, having been an employee of defendant, she can represent persons who were never hired.
Plaintiff, Mary Kay Bartelson, is a white female who was hired as an account…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- 9 Fair empl.prac.cas. 211, 9 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 9931 Sandra Wetzel and Mari Ross, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Equal Opportunity Commission as Amicus Curiae v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1975
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