Opinion ID: 2205488
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Predominance Requirement Has Been Met

Text: ¶ 42 Like typicality, the predominance requirement also closely resembles the commonality requirement. While commonality only requires common issues of law or fact, predominance requires that the common issues predominate over any individual issues in the action. Utah R. Civ. P. 23(b)(3). Thus, the predominance requirement is far more demanding than the commonality requirement. Amchem, 521 U.S. at 624, 117 S.Ct. 2231. ¶ 43 The district court found that the class action claims predominated in this case, because the individual claims had been severed from the lawsuit. In fact, the class action claims are the only claims disputed in this litigation. Therefore, they must predominate. It was not an abuse of discretion for the district court to find that the predominance requirement has been met.