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STATE OF ALA. v. BLUE BIRD BODY CO., INC.

No. 76-3529.

573 F.2d 309 (1978)

The STATE OF ALABAMA, Dr. Wayne Teague, as Superintendent of Education of the State of Alabama and the Perry County Board of Education, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BLUE BIRD BODY COMPANY, INC., Blue Bird Mid-South, Inc., Superior Coach Corporation, Sheller-Globe Corporation, Thomas Built Buses, Inc., Ward School Bus Mfg., Inc., Wayne Corporation, Carpenter Body Works, Inc., Waits Sales & Equipment Co., Inc., Duncan Mfg. & Equipment Co., Inc., Alabama Bus Company, Eddins Bus Sales, Inc., Carpenter Bus Sales of Alabama, Everett Equipment Co., Inc. and Phillips Supply Co., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward W. Killorin, Thomas W. Rhodes, Gambrell, Russell, Killorin & Forbes, Atlanta, Ga., John R. Matthews, Jr., Ball, Ball, Matthews & Lamar, Montgomery, Ala., for Blue Bird Body Co., Inc.

Harry T. Ice, James E. Hawes, Jr., Ice, Miller, Donadio & Ryan, Indianapolis, Ind., Joseph C. Espy, II, Montgomery, Ala., for Carpenter Body Works, Inc.

Bruce L. Smith, Eastman, Stichter, Smith & Bergman, Toledo, Ohio, Robert Huffaker, Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, Montgomery, Ala., for Sheller Globe Corp.

Stephen W. Terry, Jr., Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, Ind., M. R. Nachman, Jr., Steiner, Crum & Baker, Montgomery, Ala., for Thomas Built Buses, Inc.

Robert E. Jensen, Williams & Jensen, Washington, D. C., D. Coleman Yarbrough, Jones, Murray, Stewart & Yarbrough, Montgomery, Ala., for Ward School Bus Mfg., Inc.

Trammell E. Vickery, Kent E. Mast, Hansell, Post, Brandon & Dorsey, Atlanta, Ga., William I. Hill, II, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, Ala., for Wayne Corp.

John R. Matthews, Jr., Ball, Ball, Matthews & Lamar, Montgomery, Ala., for Eddins Bus Sales, Inc.

James R. Shaw, Bessemer, Ala., for Waits Sales and Equipment.

Sam R. Shannon, Jr., Shannon, Odom, Robertson & Jackson, Birmingham, Ala., for Duncan Mfg. & Equipment Co. and Carpenter Bus Sales of Ala.

B. F. Garrett, Garrett, Thompson & Price, Brewton, Ala., for Everett Equipment Co.

Richard H. Gill, Hobbs, Copeland, Franco & Screws, Montgomery, Ala., for Phillip Supply Corp.

Thomas W. Rhodes, Atlanta, Ga., for Eddins Bus Sales, Inc.

Thomas W. Thagard, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., of counsel: William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen. of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., George L. Beck, Deputy Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., E. C. Hornsby, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallassee, Ala., Smith, Bowman, Thagard, Crook and Culpepper, Montgomery, Ala., for appellees.

Before COLEMAN and FAY, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

FAY, Circuit Judge:

We are presented today with an interlocutory appeal from a district court order certifying this antitrust case as a class action on behalf of two plaintiff classes. The issue is whether the district court erred when it certified both a "national class" and a "state class" under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(3). For a number of reasons, we feel that the granting of class action status as to the plaintiff national class was inappropriate, and, as to that class...

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