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EX PARTE PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA

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721 So.2d 1135 (1998)

Ex parte The PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA. (In re Iola Y. GOODSON, etc., et al. v. The PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

August 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Christian King and Floyd D. Gaines of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham; and Wayne A. Schrader and Jonathan K. Tycko of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Russell Jackson Drake of Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, L.L.C., Birmingham; Whitney North Seymour, Jr., of Landy & Seymour, Jr., New York, NY; J.L. Chestnut, Jr., of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders & Pettaway, P.C., Selma; and Joseph W. Phebus of Phebus & Winkelmann, Urbana, IL, for respondents.

HOUSTON, Justice.

The Prudential Insurance Company of America ("Prudential"), the defendant in an action pending in the Greene Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to vacate its order of August 16,1996, conditionally certifying the action as a class action. We grant the writ.

Iola Y. Goodson, as attorney in fact for her incapacitated mother, Iola M. Young; and Gloria F. Pagliughi; Earnest Clay; and Joseph J. Nevills ("plaintiffs...

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