Carol Pastor, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The district court in this class-action suit denied class certification, and we exercised our discretion under Fed. R.Civ.P. 23(f) to decline to accept an appeal from that denial. But then the defendant made and the plaintiff accepted a modest offer of judgment (Fed.R.Civ.P. 68), which terminated the case and so enabled the plaintiff to appeal as a matter of right in order to challenge the denial of class certification, because her acceptance of the offer did not resolve the dispute between the unnamed class members and the defendant and so did not render the case moot.…