Casa Orlando Apartments, Ltd. v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal from the district court’s refusal to certify a class. Plaintiff Appellants are mortgagors whose mortgages for low-income multi-family housing were held or serviced by the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) and insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”). Plaintiffs sued Fannie Mae on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated for breach of fiduciary duty. The district court denied class certification under all three prongs of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 28(b).…