Legal Opinion
Frank Franze v. Equitable Assurance
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 11, 2002No. 01-11575PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUBINA, Circuit Judge:
This is'an interlocutory appeal from a district court’s grant'of class certification. Frank Franze,'Jr. (“Franze”) and George Busher (“Busher”) sued Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and Equitable Variable Life Insurance Company (jointly referred to as “Equitable”) for securities fraud in their sale of Variable Life Insurance (‘VLI”) policies. The district court granted a motion for class certification, and, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3), certified against Equitable a class consisting of “all persons who purchased [VLI] policies…
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