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After Standard Fire Uncertainty Continues About the Legal Certainty Standard for CAFA Removal in California District Courts

Photo of Dustin DowBy Dustin Dow on Posted in Class Action Fairness Act
Of all the recent landscape-shifting opinions the Supreme Court has issued in the class-action arena, perhaps none appear as straightforward as Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles, 133 S.Ct. 1345 (2013). Recall that in Standard Fire the Court laid down an explicit rule that a putative class-action plaintiff’s stipulation to seek damages of less than … Continue Reading

Supreme Court to Consider CAFA’s Reach to Attorney General Suits

By Deborah Renner on Posted in Class Action Fairness Act
Editors’ Note — This post originally appeared in Rennerclassactions.com, and is reprinted by permission. The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided The Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles , a case that dealt with the extent to which plaintiffs can avoid federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”) by pleading around it.  (See our March 20, 2013 post.)  On May … Continue Reading

Supreme Court Rejects Efforts to Avoid CAFA Jurisdiction

By Deborah Renner on Posted in Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action Trends
Editors’ Note:  This post is a joint submission to this blog and rennerclassactions.com. In The Standard Fire Insurance Co.v. Knowles, No. 11-1450, a unanimous decision yesterday written by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff cannot stipulate to an amount of damages for a putative class in order to avoid federal jurisdiction under … Continue Reading

Supreme Court to Consider Rights of Absent Class Members in CAFA Case

By Deborah Renner on Posted in Class Action Fairness Act, Class Action Trends
On August 31st, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari review of a case involving the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”).  In The Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles, No. 11-1450, plaintiff’s counsel tried to avoid the federal jurisdiction mandated by CAFA by stipulating that the damages sought by the putative class would be … Continue Reading
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