Legal Opinion
Vega v. T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 7, 2009No. 07-13864PublishedCited by 477 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
T-Mobile USA, Inc. (“T-Mobile”) appeals the district court’s certification of a class action brought against it on behalf of its former sales employees regarding the company’s policy for paying commissions on the sale of prepaid cellular telephone accounts. The class seeks damages to recover those commissions. After a thorough review, we find numerous flaws, both procedural and substantive, in the district court’s class certification analysis under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Procedure and find, further, that the proposed class, as pled, is not amenable to Rule 23…
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