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Kevin Armstrong v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee

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Overruled in part
Court
Seventh Circuit
Citation
616 F.2d 305
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
50 of 50
Citing cases (total)
50
Treatment dates
1998
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Armstrong was overruled in part on appeals by nonparties to class actions. All 50 flagged citations have been read.
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The Seventh Circuit's treatment in Felzen v. Andreas is listed below; later courts continue to use Armstrong's separate rules for reviewing class action settlements.

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50 later cases cite Kevin Armstrong v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee; 50 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Seventh Circuit overruled Armstrong's rule allowing a person who was not a party to appeal a class action decision.

    Felzen v. Andreas · Seventh Circuit · filed

    Lest doubt linger, we now formally overrule Asgrow Seed and any other case in this circuit (including Armstrong v. Board of School Directors, 616 F.2d 305, 327-28 (7th Cir.1980), and Patterson v. Stovall, 528 F.2d 108, 109 n. 1 (7th Cir.1976)) that permits non-parties to appeal from a decision of any kind in a class action.
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