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· 1/16/1974

Appleton Electric Company v. Advance-United Expressways

Citations

  • 494 F.2d 126
  • 18 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 497
  • 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 10539

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that Rule 23 does not “require the establishment of venue for nonrepresentative-party class members”
  • explaining that Rule 23 does not require courts to consider nonnamed class members for purposes of establishing venue
  • Three categories of defendant interstate carriers required to compile the most complete list of names and addresses of class members as was available from their files.
  • “Class actions cannot be defeated by destroying records.”

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Judges: Swygert, Sprecher, Poos

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