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DRELLES v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.

No. 02-4037, 02-4270.

357 F.3d 344 (2003)

Speros DRELLES, et al, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 24, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. John Pendleton, Jr. (Argued), McCarter & English, LLP, Newark, N.J., for Appellants.

Leslie A. Brueckner (Argued), Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, P.C., Washington, DC, Kenneth R. Behrend, Behrend & Ernsberger, P.C., Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellees.

Before AMBRO, FUENTES, and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FUENTES, Circuit Judge.

I.

In December 1999, Plaintiff-Appellant Metropolitan Life ("Metlife") settled an MDL federal class action ("the MDL case") with plaintiffs who had filed actions over allegedly illegal sales practices. In the case before us, Appellees, all represented by the firm Behrend and Ernsberger ("Behrend"), are opt-out plaintiffs pursuing their own individual suits in...

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