Legal Opinion
Scott Culver v. City of Milwaukee, and United States of America, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 15, 2002No. 01-1555PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A class action suit was brought on behalf of white males who claimed to have been discriminated against in hiring by the Milwaukee police department. The district court granted the defendants’ motion to decertify the class and having done so dismissed the suit because the class representative’s own claim was conceded to be moot. A properly certified class action survives the mootness of the original representative’s claims, but an individual action must be dismissed in identical circumstances, Nelson v. Murphy, 44 F.3d 497, 500 (7th Cir.1995); Lusardi v. Xerox Corp., 975…
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