Scott Culver v. City of Milwaukee, and United States of America, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee

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• holding that the named plaintiff could appeal decertification of the class even though his claims became moot due to his voluntary decision to accept another job
• explaining that the plaintiff’s inability to serve as representative of one of two proposed subclasses demonstrated that his claim was not typical of the class as a whole
• acknowledging that the statute of limitations resumes running “when class certification is denied”
• stating that class representatives whose own claims have been rendered moot are \presumptively inadequate\
• “The judge’s duty is to order notice unless the risk of prejudice to absent class members is nil.”
• “[B]ut when the suit is dismissed without prejudice or when class certification is denied[,] the statute resumes running for the class members.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).