Court Opinion

ID: 9464893
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:45:45.877325+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:52.303637
License: Public Domain

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I write separately to express my views on the mootness issue discussed in Part II of Judge Rubin’s thorough and scholarly opinion, which I fully join in all other respects. Although I agree that a defendant should not be able to terminate a class action by tendering a few dollars to a putative class representative, I cannot subscribe to the sweeping dicta in the majority opinion that treats fact situations foreign to the instant case. Here the named plaintiffs strenuously objected to the defendant’s “settlement” offer, and it cannot be said that a true settlement took place. The voluntary acceptance by named plaintiffs of such an offer is not involved, however, and I see no need to address the mootness question that it would present.