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BASILE v. H & R BLOCK, INC.

No. 7 EAP 2008.

973 A.2d 417 (2009)

Sandra J. BASILE and Laura Clavin, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Appellees v. H & R BLOCK, INC.; H & R Block Eastern Tax Services, Inc., & Mellon Bank (DE) National Association, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 22, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen Murphy McBride, Esq., William H. Lamb, Esq., Scot Russel Withers, Esq., James C. Sargent, Jr., Esq., John J. Cunningham, IV, Esq., Lamb McErlane, P.C., West Chester, for H & R Block, Inc., and H & R. Block Eastern Tax Services, Inc.

Louis C. Long, Esq., Joshua Siebert, Esq., Pietragallo, Gordon, Alfano, Bosick & Raspanti, Pittsburgh, for Pennsylvania Defense Institute.

Steven E. Angstreich, Esq., Michael Coren, Esq., Levy Angstreich Finney Baldante Rubenstein & Coren, P.C., Philadelphia, for Sandra Basile, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., and SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, and GREENSPAN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice GREENSPAN.

We decide whether the Appellants, H & R Block, Inc. and H & R Block Eastern Tax Services, Inc. (collectively referred to as "Block"), properly preserved their right to challenge certification of a class represented by Appellee Sandra Basile. Here, the Superior Court held that Block waived its right to seek decertification of the class because it did not timely challenge the order granting class certification, even...

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