Legal Opinion
Debra Ott v. Speedwriting Publishing Company and I.T.T. Educational Services Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 14, 1975No. 74-2002PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Circuit Judge.
The first question which must be decided in this case is whether the “death knell” doctrine as enunciated by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin, 370 F.2d 119 (1966) (Eisen I), cert. denied, 386 U.S. 1035, 87 S.Ct. 1487, 18 L.Ed.2d 598 (1967), should be applied to permit the plaintiff Debra Ott to appeal from an order of the district court denying her request to prosecute this case as a class action under Rule 23, Fed.R.Civ.P.
Plaintiff, a former student at the Knoxville Business College, alleged in her complaint that Knoxville…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Eisen v. Carlisle & JacquelinSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Cobbledick v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Green v. Wolf Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968
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3Cited by39 opinions
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- State of Illinois v. Sangamo Construction Co. And J. L. Simmons Company, Inc., DefendantsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1981
- Shelter Realty Corp. v. Allied Maintenance Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Boggs v. Divested Atomic Corp.District Court, S.D. Ohio · 1991
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