Legal Opinion
John H. Isaacs v. Sprint Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 14, 2001No. 01-8016PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Beginning in the 1980s, Sprint purchased from some 40 different railroads operating in every state of the continental United States the right to install fiber-optic cables on the railroads’ rights of way. A suit has been filed in the district court on behalf of owners of the land adjacent to these rights of way, claiming that the right belongs to them, not to the railroads, and seeking damages for the alleged conversion. Class certification was sought under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(3). The district court certified two plaintiff classes, one consisting of owners of land…
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