Opinion ID: 1869498
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Rigorous Analysis

Text: Next, the majority holds that a choice-of-law analysis is foreclosed at the class-certification stage because we have previously rejected any requirement of a rigorous-analysis inquiry by our circuit courts. As support for this proposition, the majority cites federal court decisions, all of which hold that the trial court must conduct a thorough or rigorous analysis of the choice of governing state law before certifying a case as a class action. While it may be a necessary element of thorough or rigorous analysis in other jurisdictions that a court analyze applicable state laws as a prerequisite to class certification, the converse propositionany consideration of choice-of-law issues at class certification stage amounts to a thorough and rigorous analysisis not necessarily true. In fact, there may be circumstances where the trial court should undertake a choice-of-law analysis to enable us to conduct a meaningful review of the certification issue on appeal. Lenders Title Co. v. Chandler, 353 Ark. 339, 107 S.W.3d 157 (2003).