Legal Opinion
Mattoon v. City of Norman
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided July 27, 1981No. 56435PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPALA, Justice:
The question to be answered here is whether there was error in the trial court’s refusal to certify this suit as a class action. We hold that a class-action status denial is deemed to rest on an adequate record when any one of the five requisites for class action certification under 12 O.S.Supp. 1979 § 13 appears to be absent. Measured by this test, we find the order under review free from error.
The plaintiff [Mattoon] brought this suit as a class action against the City of Norman [City] in inverse cpndemnation. His claim was that the municipality’s adoption of a flood plain…
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