Supreme Court of Texas

In an interlocutory appeal of a trial court's class certification order, where the class representative obtained assignments of claims that the defendant telephone company improperly charged some of its business customers certain municipal fees, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed and the class decertified where: 1) the assignments are valid and provide standing; 2) the class representative's claims are typical of the other class members' claims; 3) common questions of law or fact predominate; but 4) the putative class representative failed to establish that it adequately represents the claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/22/2007
• Decided 02/22/2010
• Published 02/22/2010

Judges

• Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court in which Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mike A. Hatchell, Molly H. Hatchell, Christopher Benjamin Dove, Kirsten M. Castaneda, Weston C. Loegering, Christopher D. Kratovil, Cynthia F. Malone, Richard M. Parr, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. O'Quinn, Russell T. Lloyd, Thomas Bray, J. Marcus Hill, Jonathan Scott Stoger, Manuel M. Vela, Ernesto Gamez Jr., for Respondent.