As requiring a preliminary determination of predominance would unduly narrow the remedy, courts can determine specific issues for a class action without requiring that those issues must predominate within a putative individual action. Here, the issue classes predominate and are best addressed as a class. Circuit split flagged.
Any Seventh Amendment harms from the Special Master process are presently speculative.
http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/18a0139p-06.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.