Key v. Jewel Companies, Inc.

This is an appeal from an order granting defendant Jewel Companies’ motion to strike class action allegations from plaintiffs’ second amended complaint. Interlocutory appeal was allowed pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308. (107 Ill. 2d R. 308.) The following questions were certified for appeal:

“(1) Whether the trial court erred under section 2 — 801 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure in granting defendant’s motion to strike class allegations on the grounds that:

Any common questions of law in this case are overshadowed by both questions of fact and particular applications of the law that…