Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Marketing on Hold Inc.

in which Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT joined.

In this interlocutory appeal of a trial court’s class certification order, the class representative obtained assignments of claims that the defendant telephone company improperly charged some of its business customers certain municipal fees. The court of appeals affirmed the statewide class certification. 170 S.W.3d 814, 829. We conclude that the assignments are valid and provide standing, that the class representative’s claims are typical of the other class members’ claims, and that common questions of law or…