United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit over defective side-impact airbags, certification of a nationwide class is reversed and remanded with instructions to deny the certifications where plaintiffs did not sufficiently demonstrate the predominance requirement for class certification because they failed both to undertake the required "extensive analysis" of variations in state law concerning their claims and to consider how those variations impact predominance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/31/2007
• Published 07/31/2007

Judges

• KING, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, GARZA and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Walter C. Thompson, Jr., Charles Michael Pisano (argued), Barkley & Thompson, New Orleans, LA, Jon Kenton Parsons, Roedel, Parsons, Koch, Frost, Balhoff & McCollister, Baton Rouge, LA, Donald Gene Kelly, Kelly, Townsend & Thomas, Natchitoches, LA, Bob F. Wright, Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., David G. Radlauer, Thomas A. Casey, Jr. (argued), Aimee M. Quirk, Jones Walker, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.