Legal Opinion
Tora C. Brennan v. Midwestern United Life Insurance Company, Appeal of Claude M. Herriman, Movants-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 23, 1971No. 18682PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Chief Judge.
The issue on this appeal is whether in a class action under Rule 23, Fed.R. Civ.P., those identifiable absent members of the representative plaintiff’s class who received notice of the pendency of the suit and neither elected to be excluded nor entered an appearance may be required to submit to discovery under Rules 33 and 34, Fed.R.Civ.P., on pain of dismissal of their claims with prejudice for failure to respond. This issue arises out of the denial of appellants’ (hereinafter designated “movants”) motion under Rule 60(b), Fed.R.Civ.P., which asserted that the dismissal…
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