Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) provides a way to immediately appeal orders granting or denying class certification. These interlocutory orders ordinarily would be appealable only after final ...

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) gives the court of appeals discretion to review a narrow class of interlocutory orders: those granting or denying class certification. But it is sometimes ...

Rule 23 now provides a clear mechanism for determining who will be bound by a judgment on the merits: class certification. If the proposed class is sufficiently cohesive—i.e., it meets the ...

An analysis of 143 Rule 23(f) petitions at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reveals a "striking" divergence in grant rates for petitions filed by plaintiffs and those filed by ...