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Summary: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT _ No. 15-3983 _ IN RE: COMCAST CORP. SET-TOP CABLE TELEVISION BOX ANTITRUST LITIGATION James Deanne; William Gonzales; State of West Virginia, Appellants _ On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (D.C. No. 2-09-md-02034) District Judge: Honorable Anita B. Brody _ Submitted under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) August 25, 2016 Before: FUENTES, KRAUSE, and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges _ ORDER _ This case cam
Summary: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT _ No. 15-3983 _ IN RE: COMCAST CORP. SET-TOP CABLE TELEVISION BOX ANTITRUST LITIGATION James Deanne; William Gonzales; State of West Virginia, Appellants _ On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (D.C. No. 2-09-md-02034) District Judge: Honorable Anita B. Brody _ Submitted under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) August 25, 2016 Before: FUENTES, KRAUSE, and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges _ ORDER _ This case came..
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
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No. 15-3983
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IN RE: COMCAST CORP. SET-TOP CABLE TELEVISION BOX
ANTITRUST LITIGATION
James Deanne; William Gonzales; State of West Virginia,
Appellants
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On Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
(D.C. No. 2-09-md-02034)
District Judge: Honorable Anita B. Brody
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Submitted under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)
August 25, 2016
Before: FUENTES, KRAUSE, and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges
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ORDER
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This case came to be considered on the record from the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was submitted pursuant to Third
Circuit LAR 34.1(a) on August 25, 2016.
Because the parties do not dispute that the District Court erred in denying
certification to the proposed Settlement Class on the ground that the class was not
ascertainable, and we are in agreement, we summarily REVERSE the judgment of the
District Court entered on November 5, 2015 and REMAND for further proceedings as
appropriate in the District Court. The concern that a defendant be “able to test the
reliability of the evidence submitted to prove class membership,” Carrera v. Bayer Corp.,
727 F.3d 300, 307 (3d. Cir. 2013), is not implicated by this case, where the defendant has
agreed that the evidence regarding class membership is sufficiently reliable. Similarly,
the concern that “[t]he method of determining whether someone is in the class . . . be
administratively feasible,”
id., is not implicated by this case, because the settlement
agreement removes the need for a trial. See Sullivan v. DB Investments, Inc.,
667 F.3d
273, 335 (3d Cir. 2011) (Scirica, J. concurring).
By the Court,
s/ Cheryl Ann Krause
Circuit Judge
ATTEST:
s/Marcia M. Waldron
Clerk
Dated: August 31, 2016