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Unnamed Class Members Can Object to Settlement
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2002, page 10
Robert Devlin, a pensioner and unnamed class member in a class action suit involving his company pension, attempted to intervene to block a proposed class settlement. The Maryland Federal District Court barred intervention as untimely and accepted the settlement. Devlin appealed, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding ...
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