De Los Santos v. Occidental Chemical Corp.

OPINION

YAÑEZ, Justice.

This is an attempted interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order changing the nature of a class action from opt-out to mandatory, by Martina De Los Santos and a number of others who wish to exclude themselves from the class of plaintiffs. Because we find no authority for an interlocutory appeal, we dismiss for want of jurisdiction.

Although the underlying lawsuit has been through a number of complicated changes and realignments, for purposes of the present appeal it is proeedurally fairly simple. Following a chemical release from Occidental Chemical Corporation’s…