Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products, Lp v. Ratner

I must respectfully dissent.

1. The majority’s analysis affords insufficient deference to the trial court’s determination on class certification in this case. As this Court has noted, “trial judges have broad discretion in deciding whether to certify a class.” Carnett’s, Inc. v. Hammond, 279 Ga. 125, 127 (3) (610 SE2d 529) (2005); see also Jones v. Douglas County, 262 Ga. 317, 323 (2) (418 SE2d 19) (1992) (“[o]n appellate review ... ‘the discretion of the trial judge in certifying or refusing to certify a class action is to be respected in all cases where not abused’ ”). “ ‘Implicit in this…