Supreme Court of Delaware
WIT Capital Group, Inc. v. Benning, 568, 2004
Order certifying plaintiffs-customers' class action asserting breach of contract actions against defendant, a provider of online brokerage services, is reversed where plaintiffs could not satisfy the "injury-in-fact" or "fact of harm" requirement under state law, and thus, they could not satisfy the predominance of common issues of law or fact requirement for certification.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/31/2006
- Published 02/06/2006
Judges
- STEELE, Chief Justice:, Before STEELE, Chief Justice, JACOBS, RIDGELY, Justices.
Court
- Supreme Court of Delaware
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Allen M. Terrell, Jr. and John D. Hendershot, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John N. Thomas, pro hac vice (argued), Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., New York City, for appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Jeffrey S. Goddess, Rosenthal, Monhait, Gross & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Mark Rifkin, pro hac vice (argued), Wolf, Haldenstein, Adler, Freeman & Herz, L.L.P., New York City, for appellees.