Complex Litigation Corner

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, governing class actions in federal courts, is, give or take, some 1,500 words long — about twice as long as this column. And although the word “ascertainability” appears nowhere among those words, it is almost universally accepted today that Rule 23 embodies a requirement that a class’ membership must be ascertainable in order to be certified …

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