DISCLAIMER:  Any unofficial case summaries below are prepared by the clerk's office
                        as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.

142380P.pdf   08/04/2015  David Oetting  v.  Glenn A. Norton
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-2380
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Shepherd, Circuit Judge] Civil case - Legal malpractice. Because Oetting alleged no injury other than a loss to his share of the settlement fund - which became zero when he did not cash his settlement checks - he failed to allege the elements of Article III standing for a personal claim; lacking a personal claim for a share of any money recovered from defendants, Oetting is not a member of the class he seeks to represent in this separate action; Oetting's status as class representative of the NationsBank class certified in the main action did not, without more, provide either Oetting or the class itself with standing to maintain any of the claims asserted in this separate action; district court had no duty to name a substitute plaintiff where Oetting, the sole named plaintiff in this as-yet uncertified class action, had ample notice that the defendants were seeking to dismiss for lack of standing.