United States Fifth Circuit

Class certification was incorrectly granted to a group of displaced residents of four storm-damaged public housing developments in New Orleans. District court's authority to certify a class under Rule 23 does not permit it to structure a class around claims that the displaced residents never pled.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/31/2008
• Published 12/31/2008

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER, GARZA, and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ross Benjamin Bricker, John Fee Ward, Jr., Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, William P. Quigley, Loyola University Law Clinic, Tracie L. Washington, New Orleans, LA, Anita Sinha (argued), Judith Allean Browne, Advancement Project, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Kelsi Brown Corkran (argued), Mark Bernard Stern, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Sol. Gen., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees., Rachel Wendt Wisdom (argued), Ashlee Megan Robinson, Heather Shauri Lonian, Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittmann, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.