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Supreme Court Clarifies CAFA Amount in Controversy

By Sean Wajert on December 16, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Readers will recognize that the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) provides a mechanism for removing to federal court various class actions,…
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En Banc Appeals Court Interprets CAFA Mass Action Requirement

By Sean Wajert on November 20, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Drug and Device

The Ninth Circuit has weighed in on an interesting CAFA issue, holding that personal injury claims relating to prescription pain relief drugs belong i…
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Lack of Confidence Not An Answer to CAFA Removal

By Sean Wajert on April 18, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Readers are used to litigants using favorable law to their benefit; this case involves a plaintiff trying to use unfavorable law to his benefit. The c…
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CAFA Removal Appeal to Watch

By Sean Wajert on April 10, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Here’s one to watch. The Supreme Court agreed earlier this week to consider whether defendants seeking removal of a proposed class suit to federal cou…
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Remand Not Warranted in CAFA Case

By Sean Wajert on March 25, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Often defendants in proposed class actions think of an individual’s playing a dual role as lead plaintiff and class counsel as a useful fact to defeat…
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Ninth Circuit to Rehear CAFA Mass Action Removal

By Sean Wajert on February 11, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action

The Ninth Circuit en banc has agreed to rehear a panel’s split decision on mass action removal under the Class Action Fairness Act that created a circ…
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Supreme Court Hears Argument in CAFA Case

By Sean Wajert on November 7, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action

The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a case raising the issue whether a parens patriae group action by a state attorney general — a class-like li…
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Denial of Class Certification Does Not Deprive Federal Court of CAFA Jurisdiction

By Sean Wajert on October 9, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Quick CAFA point for our readers. Another federal court has ruled that the denial of a motion for class certification does not divest a federal distri…
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Second Circuit Explains Home State Exception in CAFA

By Sean Wajert on September 25, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action

The Second Circuit recently weighed in on CAFA, and its home state exception. See Gold v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co., No. 12-2344-cv (2d Cir., 9/18/13). Not o…
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Supreme Court Takes CAFA Parens Patriae Issue

By Sean Wajert on May 29, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action

The U.S. Supreme Court granted cert last week to address whether a state attorney general’s parens patriae antitrust action is removable as a mass act…
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