Legal Opinion
Tilley v. TJX Companies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 2, 2003No. 03-8001PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
A recent amendment to the Civil Rules permits courts of appeals, in their discretion, to entertain interlocutory appeals from orders granting or denying class certification. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(f). To this point, no court has addressed the criteria that should guide the exercise of discretion in permitting (or declining to permit) interlocutory appeals with respect to defendant classes. This petition for leave to appeal from a class certification order requires us to plunge into that abyss.
We approach this task by reshaping the criteria that we have established for…
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- Zablocki v. RedhailSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- United States v. LarionoffSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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