DAY v. PERSELS & ASSOCIATES, LLC

No. 12-11887.

729 F.3d 1309 (2013)

Miranda L. DAY, Plaintiff-Appellee, Raymond Gunn, Interested Party-Appellant, v. PERSELS & ASSOCIATES, LLC, a Maryland limited liability company, Ruther & Associates, LLC, Jimmy B. Persels, Robyn R. Freedman, CareOne Services, Inc., a Maryland corporation, f.k.a. Freedom Point, Legal Advice Line, LLC, Defendants-Appellees, 3C Incorporated, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 10, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Felman , Kynes Markman & Felman, PA, Gus M. Centrone , Centrone & Shrader, LLC, Herbert R. Donica , Donica Law Firm, PA, Charles F. Ketchey, Jr. , Trenam Kemker , Thomas A. Lash , Lash & Wilcox, PA, Clarisse Moreno , Katherine Earle Yanes , Kynes Markman & Felman, PA, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael T. Kirkpatrick , Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, Altom M. Maglio , Maglio Christopher & Toale, Sarasota, FL, for Interested Party-Appellant.

Marie A. Borland , Lara J. Tibbals , Hill Ward Henderson, PA, Charles F. Ketchey, Jr. , David Thomas Knight , Hill Ward Henderson, PA, Matthew Leish , Carlton Fields, PA, David Matthew Allen , Mac Richard McCoy , Carlton Fields, PA, Tampa, FL, Catherine Anne Bledsoe , Lawrence S. Greenwald , Brian L. Moffet , Gordon Feinblatt, LLC, Baltimore, MD, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before PRYOR and JORDAN, Circuit Judges, and PRO District Judge.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires that we resolve two main issues: first, whether a magistrate judge had subject-matter jurisdiction to enter a final judgment in a class action without first obtaining the consent of the absent members of the class; and second, whether a judge abused his discretion when he found that seven defendants would be financially unable to satisfy a judgment even though no evidence about...

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