United States Third Circuit

Opt-out plaintiffs from an earlier federal class action settlement, pursuing individual suits in Pennsylvania state courts for defendant's allegedly improper sales practices, have discrete individual claims; thus it is up to the state courts to decide whether their specific discovery requests are relevant to those claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/12/2003
• Decided 02/13/2004
• Published 02/13/2004

Judges

• Before AMBRO, FUENTES, and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• B. John Pendleton, Jr. (Argued), McCarter & English, LLP, Newark, N.J., for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Leslie A. Brueckner (Argued), Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, P.C., Washington, DC, Kenneth R. Behrend, Behrend & Ernsberger, P.C., Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellees.