United States Eleventh Circuit

Class certification in an action under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act is vacated, where the district court applied the wrong legal standard based on a 2001 Department of Housing and Urban Development Statement of Policy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2002
• Published 09/19/2002

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and COX and GIBSON , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Harlan F. Winn, III,Burr & Forman, Birmingham, AL, Russell J. Pope, Pope & Hughes, Towson, MD, for Defendant-Appellant., Earl Price Underwood, Jr., Anniston, AL, C. Neal Pope, Teresa Pike Tomlinson, Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, LLP, Columbus, GA, David R. Donaldson, Tammy McClendon Stokes,Donaldson, Guin & Slate, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Richard H. Gill, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.