class-action-fairness-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-456 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Beth Bacher, Representative for Paul Bacher, Deceased, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied class-action-fairness-act federal-removal mass-action statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-consolidation Whether plaintiffs' intent matters in assessing if plaintiffs have 'proposed' a joint trial of the claims of 100 or more persons pursuant to 28 U.S.C.…
23-1024 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a primary defendant' under CAFA's ho…
23-225 Keith M. Krupka, et al. v. Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction negligence securities securities-exception securities-law statutory-construction underwriter underwriter-liability Whether a state law negligence claim based solely on an underwriter's acts and omissions with respect to a securities offering document relates to the…
23A205 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, an unincorporated association, by Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, trustees ad litem Third Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete class-action-definition class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction procedural-gamesmanship removal-jurisdiction rule-41-dismissal Whether the Class Action Fairness Act permits federal courts to exercise removal jurisdiction over cases that plaintiffs attempt to restyle or refile …
22-987 Polaris Industries Inc., et al. v. Jeremy Albright Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied abstention-doctrine cafa civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act equitable-jurisdiction federal-courts forum-shopping subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether CAFA's mandatory grant of subject matter jurisdiction and enumeration of limited equitable bases authorizing abstention require district court…
22-257 Lorraine Adell v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Sixth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-consent article-iii article-iii-adjudication civil-rights class-action-fairness-act constitutional-waiver contract-law diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-arbitration-act Whether the voluntariness of the waiver of the personal right to an Article III adjudication under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) and co…
22-209 Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'an event or occurrence' in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—'a single happening'—as the Ninth Circuit holds,…
21-683 John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation Whether the local defendant's alleged conduct can satisfy the 'significant basis' requirement of CAFA's local controversy exception where it is the sa…
20-1705 Renovo Services, LLC, et al. v. George Badeen, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied amount-in-controversy class-action-fairness-act district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federalism-separation-of-powers removal-statute rules-enabling-act separation-of-powers statutory-deadline statutory-deadlines Whether a district court can extend the mandatory statutory deadline to file a motion for remand under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c) without violating the const…
19-887 Aryeh Simon, et ux. v. Marriott International, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cafa civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act constitution constitutional-requirement diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court can disregard the requirement of minimal diversity to exercise jurisdiction over a case that undisputedly lacks diversity, bas…
18-1578 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Amici (2) cafa-removal civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-court joint-trial mass-action products-liability removal state-court state-court-proposal Whether a state court's proposal to try jointly the claims of more than 100 plaintiffs can qualify for 'mass action' removal under the Class Action Fa…
18-1352 Commerce Bank v. Beverly Williamson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-action-fairness-act counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-court jurisdictional-requirements original-defendant removal removal-statute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a counterclaim defendant in a state court class action is any defendant' entitled to remove a class action which satisfies the jurisdictional …