Legal Opinion
Palmer v. Friendly Ice Cream Corp.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided February 12, 2008No. SC 17735PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ZARELLA, J.
The sole issue raised by this appeal is whether an order denying class certification is an appealable final judgment. The plaintiffs, 1 thirty-seven persons employed as waiters or waitresses by the defendant, Friendly Ice Cream Corporation, appealed from the order of the trial court to the Appellate Court, which dismissed the appeal for lack of a final judgment. We granted the plaintiffs’ petition for certification to appeal from the Appellate Court’s judgment. The plaintiffs claim that a denial of class certification should be treated as a final judgment because such a…
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