GIVENS v. W. T. GRANT COMPANY

No. 415, Docket 71-1872.

457 F.2d 612 (1972)

Rosalie GIVENS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. W. T. GRANT COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1972.

As Modified May 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Clendenen, Jr., New Haven, Conn. (David M. Lesser, Stuart Bear and Frank Cochran, New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

William J. Egan, New Haven, Conn. (John Q. Tilson, Jr., J. Michael Eisner and Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

R. Patrick Maxwell and Donald Gartman, Washington, D. C., for The National Legal Aid And Defender Association as Amicus.

Before HAYS, MANSFIELD and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs brought this action in the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Connecticut, New Haven County, on their own behalf and on behalf of a class purported to consist of all persons who had entered into retail installment sales contracts with defendant W. T. Grant Company for the purchase of coupon books. Plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment that the contracts in question were usurious and unconscionable; injunctions against Grant...

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