Legal Opinion
Harrington v. Sessions
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 21, 2017No. 15-8009, No. 16-5285 Consolidated with 16-5286PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GINSBURG, Senior Circuit Judge:
This case coimes to the court on a petition for interlocutory appeal of the district court’s denial of certification for a class consisting of African-American deputy U.S. Marshals alleging racial discrimination by the United States Marshals Service (USMS). The district court denied class certification on the ground that-the sole named plaintiff, Herman Brewer, did not satisfy the adequacy and typicality requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(a) because, as a former USMS employee, he lacked standing to pursue class-wide injunctive relief.
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