Legal Opinion
CE Design Ltd. v. King Architectural Metals, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 18, 2011No. 10-8050PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
We have decided to grant the defendant’s petition to be allowed to appeal from the district judge’s certification of a class, in this suit under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (as amended by the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005), 47 U.S.C. § 227. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(f). The petition presents a sufficiently novel and important issue concerning class action practice to justify our allowing the appeal. And because the petition and the response are adequate substitutes for briefs and there is a voluminous record, compiled in the district court, to assist us in our…
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