Legal Opinion
Satterwhite v. City of Greenville
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 23, 1978No. 75-3377PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The appeal in this case, originally filed as a class action, raises the question whether Article III1 of the Constitution and Rule 23,2 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, permit a named'plaintiff whose individual claim has been properly dismissed on the merits to represent a putative class where the district court, prior to the loss of the individual claim, denied certification of the class without conducting an adequate hearing.
Minda Satterwhite, the named plaintiff, applied for the position of manager of Greenville’s municipal airport. She was denied that office…
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