Bell v. Beneficial Consumer Discount Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that, upon the filing of a class action complaint, “[t]he class is in the action until properly excluded”
• recognizing that, upon the filing of a class action complaint, \[t]he class is in the action until properly excluded\
• holding that a denial of class action status is a final appealable order
• holding class certification orders as final for purposes of an appeal statute
• rejecting argument that allowing litigants to appeal from denial of class certification would encourage class actions by unscrupulous individuals attempting to blackmail defendants into settlement
• defining collateral orders as orders that “possess sufficiently practical aspects of finality to make them appealable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).