Legal Opinion
Jones v. Roy
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided April 24, 2001No. CIV.A.99-D-925-NPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
DE MENT, District Judge.
Before the court is Plaintiff Willie Bell Jones’s1 Motion For Class Certification, filed November 15, 2000. Defendant Olsten Health Services2 filed a Response December 4, and Plaintiff issued a Reply December 11. After careful consideration of the arguments of counsel, the relevant law, and the record as a whole, the court finds that Plaintiffs Motion is due to be denied.
I. STANDARD OF REVIEW
Class certification is a procedural question separate from the merits of the case. A court may not certify a class unless it is satisfied that the…
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