United States Third Circuit

In making a class certification decision based on the "predominance" of mass claims over individual claims, the court need not take as true the allegations in the complaint where those allegations are unsupported, and in some instances rebutted, by a well-developed record.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/02/2001
• Decided 09/14/2001
• Published 09/14/2001

Judges

• Before BECKER, Chief Judge, MANSMANN and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anthony P. Picadio (argued), Tybe A. Brett, Picadio McCall Kane & Norton, Thomas W. Henderson, Pittsburgh, PA, Attorneys for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Perry A. Napolitano (argued), Gregory B. Jordan, Roy W. Arnold, Traci S. Rea, Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Attorneys for Appellees HBO Film Management, Inc., Entertainment Finance Services, Inc. and Home Box Office, Inc., David A. Brownlee, Kenneth M. Argentieri, Michael J. Lynch, David L. McClenahan (argued), Charles M. Tea, Paul E. Del Vecchio, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Attorneys for Appellees Kidder Peabody & Co., Incorporated and Smith Barney, Inc.