United States First Circuit

Class certification in a class-action under the Truth In Lending Act is reversed where the district court lacked the authority to certify a class of residential borrowers who might potentially be eligible for rescissionary relief under the TILA and the Massachusetts Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/29/2007
• Published 01/29/2007

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas M. Hefferon, with whom U. Gwyn Williams, Alisha R. Bloom, and Goodwin Procter LLP were on brief, for appellant., Robert B. Serino and Buckley Kolar LLP on brief for American Bankers Association, American Financial Services Association, America's Community Bankers, Consumer Bankers Association, Consumer Mortgage Coalition, Housing Policy Council of the Financial Services Roundtable, and Mortgage Bankers Association, amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher M. Lefebvre, with whom Claude Lefebvre, P.C., Daniel A. Edelman, Heather A. Kolbus, and Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin, LLC were on brief, for appellees.