INTER. LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOC. v. FISHER

No. 1D01-1336.

800 So.2d 339 (2001)

INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORMEN'S ASSOCIATION; International Longshoremen's Association, Deep Sea Local 1408; Jacksonville Maritime Association; Strachan Shipping Company; Stevens Shipping & Terminal Company; Gulf Terminal International; Cooper T. Smith Stevedoring Company, Inc., and Carolina Stevedoring Company, Appellants, v. Vonceil FISHER and Traveine Howard on their behalf and on behalf, as representatives, of A Class of Similarly Situated Longshore Workers, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

November 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Shaughnessy & Robert P. Eshelman, II, of Robert P. Eshelman, II, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellant.

Stephen B. Gallagher & Edward L. Birk, of Marks Gray, P.A., Jacksonville; David E. Breskin, Stephen P. Connor, & Anne-Marie E. Sargent, of Short, Cressman & Burgess, PLLC, Seattle, WA; and Michael F. Coppins, of Cooper, Coppins & Monroe, Tallahassee, for Appellees.


BROWNING, J.

International Longshoremen's Association, Deep Sea Local 1408 (Appellant), one of the defendants in the trial court, appeals a non-final order granting the plaintiffs'/appellees' motion to certify a settlement class. We have jurisdiction of such orders pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130(a)(3)(C)(vi) (providing for immediate appeal of order determining a class should be certified). However, Appellees contend that Appellant, a nonsettling...

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