United States Eighth Circuit

In a price-fixing conspiracy claim concerning corn and soybean seeds, the district court's denial of plaintiff's motion to certify two classes is affirmed where common questions did not predominate over individual questions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2005
• Published 03/07/2005

Judges

• BRIGHT, Circuit Judge., Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, BRIGHT, and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael D. Hausfeld, argued, Washington, D.C. (Richard S. Lewis and Richard A. Koffman, Washington, D.C., Joseph F. Devereux, Jr. and Richard P. Sher, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John H. Beisner, argued, Washington, D.C. (Lisa A. Pake, Haar and Woods, LLP, St. Louis, MO, Timothy G. Barber, Bradley C. Morris, K. Matthew Miller, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Charlotte, NC, on the brief for Aventis CropScience USA Holding, Inc.;  Stephen H. Rovak, Stephen J. O'Brien, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, St. Louis, MO, Philip D. Bartz, Cameron Cohick, Donna M. Donlon, Stephen M. Lastelic, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington, D.C., Phillip A. Bradley, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, GA, on the brief Monsanto Co.;  Andrew Rothschild, Duane Coleman, C. David Goerisch, Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C., St. Louis, MO, Jame P. Denvir, III, Scott E. Gant, Paul Kunz, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief for Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l, Inc.;  Thomas B. Weaver, Glenn E. Davis, Daniel C. Nelson, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis, MO, Vincent R. FitzPatrick, Jr., Robert A. Milne, Michael J. Gallagher, Jack E. Pace, III, White & Case LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief for Syngenta Seeds, Inc.), for Appellees.