Opinion ID: 171219
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Text: The rule of the Second and Ninth Circuits, articulated in In re WorldCom and In re Hanford, comports with the language and the legal and pragmatic bases for American Pipe and its progeny. The American Pipe rule preserves for class members a range of options pending a decision on class certification. Crown, 462 U.S. at 354, 103 S.Ct. 2392 (Powell, J., concurring). One of those options is to bring an individual suit during the pendency of a district court's consideration of class certification in a class action raising the same issues and thereby take advantage of the tolling effect that, under American Pipe, the class action has on statute of limitations. Thus, we conclude that Colorado would concur with the Second and Ninth Circuits and, as such, AFFIRM the district court's decision to deny State Farm summary judgment.