Legal Opinion
In Re American Medical Systems, Inc. Pfizer, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 15, 1996No. 95-3303, 95-3327PublishedCited by 751 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge.
Petitioners American Medical Systems (“AMS”) and Pfizer, Inc., defendants below, both seek a writ of mandamus directing the district court to vacate orders conditionally certifying a class in a products liability suit involving penile prostheses. This court has held that class certification is generally not the kind of subject matter for which mandamus relief is available on the grounds that class certification decisions are reviewable on direct appeal. 1 However, on the extraordinary facts of this ease we find that the district judge’s disregard of class action…
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