EX PARTE AmSOUTH BANCORPORATION

1961212.

717 So.2d 357 (1998)

Ex parte AmSOUTH BANCORPORATION et al. (Re James W. KERR et al. v. AmSOUTH BANCORPORATION et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fournier J. Gale III, A. Inge Selden III, and Luther M. Dorr, Jr., of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham; and James J. Restivo, Jr., Gregory B. Jordan, and Perry A. Napolitano of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, PA, for petitioners Am-South Bancorporation, AmSouth Bank of Alabama, and AmSouth Investment Services, Inc.

M. Clay Ragsdale and E. Ansel Strickland of Law Offices of M. Clay Ragsdale, Birmingham; Alan Schulman, Jan M. Adler, and Pamela M. Parker of Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, L.L.P., San Diego, CA; and Steven E. Cauley, Little Rock, AR, for respondents.

Russell Jackson Drake of Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, L.L.C., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Trial Lawyers Ass'n.


PER CURIAM.

The defendants in an action pending in the Jefferson Circuit Court, AmSouth Bancorporation and certain of its affiliates, petition this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to set aside its order certifying the action as a class action under Rule 23(b)(3), Ala. R. Civ. P. We grant the petition.

The defendant AmSouth Bank of Alabama ("the Bank") is a wholly owned subsidiary of the defendant AmSouth Bancorporation. The defendant...

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