Wood River Area Development Corp. v. Germania Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n

“Dragged out of the litigative attic at half-century intervals to deal with exotic cases of traveling preachers and bankrupt fraternal lodges, the class suit, as it had come to be called, was clearly good for something, even if no one could quite figure out what.” Yeazell, From Group Litigation to Class Action, Part II: Interest, Class, and Representation, 27 UCLA L. Rev. 1067, 1098 (1980).

Of course, class actions are good for those cases in which they are appropriate; indeed, the issue here is whether a class action is appropriate in this case.

There is, however, a most crucial distinction…