Legal Opinion
In Re: Allstate Insurance Company Agent Transition Severance Plan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 8, 2005No. 04-8022PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Allstate petitions us under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(f) for leave to appeal the district court’s decision to certify under Rule 23(b)(2) a class of plaintiffs who allege that Allstate constructively discharged them in order to deprive them of benefits to which ERISA entitled them. We grant the petition (and proceed to decide the merits) because it presents a novel and important issue: whether certification under Rule 23(b)(2) is proper when, though injunctive or declaratory relief is sought rather than damages, individual hearings may be necessary to determine causation and hence…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Lynne A. Carnegie, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Household International, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
- Vicente Galvan and Marcelino Torres v. Louis L. Levine, Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York,defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
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