United States Third Circuit

Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(3) commonality does not exist where the plaintiff alleges misrepresentations made to over 280,000 purchasers by over 30,000 independent agents and where the sales presentations were neither uniform nor scripted.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/14/2000
• Decided 03/05/2001
• Published 03/05/2001

Judges

• Before:  SCIRICA, FUENTES and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James F. Jorden, (Argued), Waldemar J. Pflepsen, Jr., Paul A. Fischer, Richard Karpinski, Stephen H. Goldberg, Jorden, Burt, Boros, Cicchetti, Berenson & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC, William T. Hangley, Michael Lieberman, Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin, Philadelphia, PA, Attorneys for Appellant., Evan M. Tager, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Victoria E. Fimea, American Council of Life Insurers, Washington, DC, Attorneys for Amicus-Appellant, American Council of Life Insurers.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Elliott, Thomas J. Elliott, Henry F. Siedzikowski, (Argued), Mark A. Kearney, Timothy T. Myers, Brian J. McCormick, Elliott, Reihner, Siedzikowski & Egan, P.C., Blue Bell, PA, Attorney for Appellees.