Wiley v. Adkins

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals affirming a judgment of the Knox Circuit Court awarding $2,188,950 in damages in a class action lawsuit for alleged fraud in the operation of a proprietary business school.

The questions presented are whether the trial judge erred in maintaining this action as a class action and instructing the jury as to all plaintiffs as the members of one class; whether the trial judge erred in requiring Wiley to proceed to trial on the issue of liability when the order of the court stated that the case would be tried only as to…