Pearce v. Union Nat. Bank

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing “that the class members were effectively defendants resisting financial demands by the attorneys... makes the jurisdictional shortcoming clear and establishes that the judgment is not entitled to full faith and credit”
• Easterbrook, J., joined by Posner, C.J., and Manion, Rovner, and Diane P. Wood, JJ., dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc
• Easterbrook, J., joined by Posner, C.J., and Manion, Rovner, and Diane P. Wood, JJ., dissenting from denial of rehearing en bane
• the substantial jurisdictional problems “were aggravated by the class members’ ignorance of their exposure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).