United States Fourth Circuit

In a case where the district court conditionally certified a class action suit brought by purchasers and beneficiaries of a multi-employer health care plan for claims growing out of the plan's collapse, the court abused its discretion in certifying the class as to a group of individual defendants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/30/2003
• Published 10/30/2003

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: William R. Lewis, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Charleston, South Carolina;  James Y. Becker, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellants.  Christian Hancock Hartley, Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina;  Justin S. Kahn, Kahn Law Firm, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Charles R. Norris, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Charleston, South Carolina;  John H. Tiller, Elizabeth J.V. Speidel, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina;  H. Michael Bowers, Young, Clement, Rivers & Tisdale, Charleston, South Carolina;  Thomas J. Keaveny, II, Simons & Keaveny, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellants.