United States Second Circuit

Class certification of fraud claims based on oral misrepresentations is appropriate only where the misrepresentations relied upon were materially uniform, allowing such misrepresentations to be demonstrated using generalized rather than individualized proof.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/10/2002
• Published 10/10/2002

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  STRAUB and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward Labaton,Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow (Joel H. Bernstein, James W. Johnson, Michael Hanzman, Marc H. Edelson, Ira Neil Richards, on the brief), New York, NY, for Petitioners-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth B. Forrest, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (Jeffrey M. Wintner, Dhananjai Shivakumar, Hannah Berkowitz, Jacqueline O. LiCalzi, on the brief), New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellee.