Legal Opinion
Bates v. United Parcel Service
District Court, N.D. California
Decided November 1, 2001No. C99-2216 TEHPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
THELTON E. HENDERSON, District Judge.
These matters came before the Court on Monday, October 22, 2001, on Plaintiffs’ motions for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 and bifurcation of trial under Rule 42(b). After careful consideration of the parties’ written and oral arguments, this Court GRANTS both motions for the reasons described below.
BACKGROUND
Five plaintiffs — Eric Bates, Eric Bumbala, Bert Enos, Babaranti Oloyede, and Edward Williams — seek to represent a class of United Parcel Service (UPS) employees who “use sign language as a primary means of…
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