Courts in the Ninth Circuit universally recognize that the standard used in the first step of analysis is a lenient one. Edwards v. City of Long Beach, 467 F.Supp.2d 986, 990 (C.D. Cal 2006); see also Talavera v. Sun Maid Growers of California, No. 1:15-cv-00842, 2015 WL 7187960, at *2 (E.D. Cal. Nov. 16 2015) (". . . the first step in this analysis uses a very lenient standard . . .") (citing Murillo v. Pac. Gas & Elec. Co., 266 F.R.D. 468, 471 (E.D. Cal. 2010)); Millan, 310 F.R.D. at 607 (noting that the notice-stage standard is a "lenient standard"); Misra v. Decision One Mortg. Co., LLC, 673 F. Supp. 2d 987, 993 (C.D. Cal. 2008) (same); Adams v. Inter-Con Sec. Systems, Inc., 242 F.R.D. 530, 536 (N.D. Cal. 2007 ) (same). A plaintiff's "evidentiary burden at this stage is to make substantial allegations, supported by declarations or discovery, that 'the putative class members were together the victims of a single decision, policy, or plan.'" Syed, 2014 WL 6685966, at *3 (quoting Lewis, 669 F. Supp. 2d at 1127).