Legal Opinion
Waste Management Holdings, Inc. v. Mowbray
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 31, 2000No. 99-8015PublishedCited by 345 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition for leave to appeal from a class certification order. It provides us with our first real opportunity to delineate the circumstances in which a court of appeals should exercise its discretion to allow an interlocutory appeal under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(f). Seizing that opportunity, we offer some general guidance and limn three types of cases in which we will be inclined to grant such applications.
We then move from the general to the particular. While the petition at hand does not present an especially compelling case for interlocutory review, we nonetheless…
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