United States Eleventh Circuit

In case arising from class action suit alleging defendant had engaged in fraudulent and deceptive conduct in connection with the marketing and sale of flexible premium and universal life insurance policies, order against appellants, who brought complaints in Mississippi state court, enjoining them from further prosecuting their claim based is affirmed as: 1) the notice afforded appellants in the previous class action settlement satisfied the constitutional requirements of due process; and 2) the claims that the appellants have brought against defendant in Mississippi plainly fall within the scope of the earlier class action settlement and release in Georgia, and, therefore, they are barred by the doctrine of res judicata.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2007
• Published 07/25/2007

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julianna Thomas McCabe, Landon K. Clayman, Markham R. Leventhal, Jorden Burt, LLP, Miami, FL, Franklin G. Burt, Jorden Burt, LLP, Washington, DC, for Southern Farm Bureau Life Ins. Co.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Anthony Busby, Langston & Langston, PLLC, Jackson, MS, for Respondents-Appellants.