Read Williams v. Mohawk Indus., Inc., 08-13446

In an appeal from the District Court's order denying Plaintiffs' motion for class certification, the order is reversed where: 1) claims under RICO are often susceptible to common proof; and 2) the claim that Defendant hired illegal labor, which depressed the Plaintiffs' wages, was common to all putative class members.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/28/2009
• Published 05/28/2009

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT, PRYOR and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronan P. Doherty, Joshua F. Thorpe, John E. Floyd, Nicole G. Iannarone, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Howard W. Foster, Touhy, Touhy, Buehler & Williams, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• R. Carl Cannon, Constangy, Brooks & Smith, Atlanta, GA, Matthew D. Thames, Goddard, Thames, Hammontree & Bolding, LLC, Dalton, GA, Juan P. Morillo, Steven T. Cottreau, Clifford Chance, US, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.