Legal Opinion
Lyon v. Caterpillar, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 22, 2000No. CIV.A. 98-CV-2510PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
ANITA B. BRODY, District Judge.
Plaintiff Paul E. Lyon brings this action on behalf of a proposed class against defendant Caterpillar, Inc. for violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act (815 ILCS 505/1 et seq.) or various other states’ consumer fraud acts.1 Jurisdiction is predicated on diversity of citizenship.2 See 28 U.S.C. *209§ 1332. Now before me is plaintiffs motion for class certification. For the following reasons, I will deny plaintiffs motion.
I. Background
For the purposes of class certification, the court is bound to take substantive allegations of the complaint as true.…
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