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IN RE KATRINA CANAL BREACHES LITIGATION

Nos. 09-31156, 09-31188.

628 F.3d 185 (2010)

In re KATRINA CANAL BREACHES LITIGATION. Plaintiffs Class, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Parish Levee District; Orleans Levee District; Board of Commissioners of the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District; Lake Borgne Basin Levee District; Board of Commissioners of the East Jefferson Levee District; East Jefferson Levee District; St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees, v. Mary Brinkmeyer; Michelle LeBlanc; Thomas C. Stuart, Interested Parties-Appellants. In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation. Leslie Sims, Jr.; Rosa Marquez; Floyd Aaron III; Hassar Sleem; Madeline Bertucci, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District; Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans; East Jefferson Levee District; Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers; St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees. Vera D. Richard, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees. Elizabeth H. Depass, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District; Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans; East Jefferson Levee District; Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers; St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees. Marie Adams, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees. Linda C. Bourgeois, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees. Keith C. Ferdinand, M.D., A.P.M.C., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees. Mary Christophe, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees. Susan Williams, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees. Rhealynda Porter, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees. Xiomara Augustine, doing business as Bright Minds Academy, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Orleans Levee District; United States Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 16, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Bruno , Bruno & Bruno, L.L.P., Gerald Edward Meunier (argued), Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer, New Orleans, LA, James Charles Roy , Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff's Class.

Thomas P. Anzelmo, Sr . (argued), McCranie, Sistrunk, Anzelmo, Hardy, McDaniel & Welch, Metairie, LA, for Bd. of Commissioners of Orleans Levee Dist., Orleans Levee Dist.

Gary Mark Zwain , Joseph E. Bearden, III , Lawrence J. Duplass , Andrew D. Weinstock , Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois, Pfister & Weinstock, A.P.L.C., Metairie, LA, for Bd. of Commissioners of Lake Borgne Basin Levee Dist., Lake Borgne Basin Levee Dist., East Jefferson Levee Dist.

Gary Mark Zwain , Jennifer May Morris , Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois, Pfister & Weinstock, A.P.L.C., Metairie, LA, for Bd. of Commissioners of East Jefferson Levee Dist.

Ralph S. Hubbard, III , Joseph P. Guichet , Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, LA, for St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Michael T. Kirkpatrick (argued), Allison M. Zieve , Washington, DC, Jennifer Jean Rosenbaum , New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Legal Dept., New Orleans, LA, for Brinkmeyer, LeBlanc, Stuart.

James Kee Irvin (argued), Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Sims, Jr., Marquez, Aaron, Sleem, Bertucci, Richard, Depass, Adams, Bourgeois, Ferdinand, Christophe, Williams, Porter, Augustine.

Robin D. Smith , U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Charles Munson Lanier, Jr. , Christovich & Kearney, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Sewerage and Water Bd. of New Orleans.

Before KING, GARWOOD and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

KING, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, objecting members of a proposed settlement class of plaintiffs damaged or injured by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, seek review of the district court's certification of a limited fund mandatory class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(1)(B) and its approval of a final class settlement. We hold that the Supreme Court's opinion in Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp., 527 U.S. 815, 119 S.Ct. 2295...

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