United States Fifth Circuit

In a mass tort action, an order denying certification to members of a purported class alleging claims against defendant-oil company arising out of a fire in one of its facilities is affirmed where plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that their proposed class satisfied either the predominance or superiority requirements of Rule 23(b)(3).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2006
• Published 08/21/2006

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, BARKSDALE and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Calvin Clifford Fayard, Jr. (argued), Denham Springs, LA, Joseph M. Bruno (argued), David S. Scalia, Bruno & Bruno, New Orleans, LA, Elizabeth Cary Dougherty (argued), Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Patrick Cash (argued), Winstead, Sechrest & Minick, Houston, TX, Louise V. White, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, New Orleans, LA, Charles S. McCowan, Jr., Louis Victor Gregoire, Jr., Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.