Cheminova America Corporation v. Corker

These appeals are from a class-certification order, filed pursuant to Act No. 99-250, Ala. Acts 1999, codified at §§ 6-5-640 through -642, Ala. Code 1975 (Cum. Supp. 1999). The Act requires a trial court to hold a "full evidentiary hearing" on class certification under Rule 23, Ala.R.Civ.P. This Court has consistently held that a trial court's class-certification order is to be reviewed by an abuse-of-discretion standard. Ex parteGovernment Employees Ins. Co., 729 So.2d 299, 303 (Ala. 1999). We find no abuse of discretion in the court's entering the class-certification order; therefore, we…