A judge’s decision to certify a class against Nextel for inducing the former law firm of Leeds, Morelli & Brown into settling an employment discrimination case that harmed plaintiffs has been reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The circuit said a lower court erred in finding that common issues predominated over individual ones in Johnson v. Nextel Communications, 14-454, finding instead that individual issues would “overwhelm” the rest of the case alleging that Nextel colluded with the former Leeds, Morelli & Brown, now Leeds Brown Law.
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