IN RE BAYVIEW CREMATORY, LLC

No. 2006-900.

930 A.2d 1190 (2007)

Petition of BAYVIEW CREMATORY, LLC and another.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: August 8, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiggin & Nourie, of Manchester (Doreen Connor and Mary Ann Dempsey on the joint brief) for petitioners Derek Wallace, Hart Wallace Funeral Home and Simplicity Funeral Home.

Hoefel, Phoenix & Gormley, of Portsmouth (Lawrence Gormley on the joint brief) for petitioners Linda Stokes, individually and as trustee of the Dekes Realty Trust, and Larry Stokes.

Getman, Stacey, Schulthess & Steere, PA, of Bedford (Andrew R. Schulman and Dona Feeney on the joint brief, and Mr. Schulman orally) for petitioner Bayview Crematory, LLC.

David H. Charlip, of Hollywood, Florida, by brief and orally, and Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman & Scott, P.A., of Portsmouth (Christopher E. Grant on the brief), for the respondents.


GALWAY, J.

The petitioners filed a petition for original jurisdiction pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 11 after the Superior Court (Morrill J.) denied their request for an interlocutory appeal of its order certifying as a class action the lawsuit of the respondents, who are clients of funeral homes that contracted with petitioner Bayview Crematory (Bayview). We reverse the class certification order.

The record supports the following. Petitioner Derek...

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