United States Second Circuit

Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(2), a bright-line bar to (b)(2) class treatment of all claims for compensatory damages and other non-incidental damages is not appropriate and a court should determine certification on a case-by-case basis.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/31/2001
• Decided 10/09/2001
• Published 10/09/2001

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge:, Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, CALABRESI and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan L. Fuchsberg,The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Firm, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Wendy R. Fleishman, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP (Coalition of Labor Union Women), New York, NY;  Barbara R. Arnwine (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law), Washington, DC;  Antonia Hernandez (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), Los Angeles, CA;  Karen K. Narasaki (National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium), Washington, DC;  Dennis C. Hayes (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Baltimore, MD;  Paula A. Brantner (National Employment Lawyers Association), San Francisco, CA;  Marcia D. Greenberger (National Women's Law Center), Washington, DC;  Brad Seligman (Impact Fund), Berkeley, CA;  for Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Myron D. Rumeld, Proskauer Rose, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee., Ann Elizabeth Reesman, McGuiness Norris & Williams (Equal Employment Advisory Council), Washington, DC;  for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant-Appellee.