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Ninth Circuit Shuts Down “Super” Snap Removals, Leaves Question of “Non-Super” Snap Removals (AKA Pre-Service Removals) Open for...

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Many defendants prefer federal court to state court. Accordingly, when sued in state court, they will remove whenever possible.  This bulletin addresses a wrinkle in the law about when removal is possible....more

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No Breach of Contract Where Company Disclosed Its Own Non-Public Information

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The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a trade secret lawsuit against a consultant that allegedly failed to prevent its client from disclosing its own proprietary information...more

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Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals: We lack jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act to review sua sponte remand order.

On March 9, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition for permission to appeal an order remanding a case removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”). In its ruling denying the...more

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SCOTUS denies certiorari in New York opioid stewardship payment challenge

On October 4, 2021, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in an appeal from a decision of the Second Circuit which held that New York’s opioid stewardship payment, required as part of the New York Opioid...more

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Fourth Circuit Rejects Federal Jurisdiction Over Claim Against State for Loss of Private Property

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A recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit concerned a nightmare scenario for any property owner. The plaintiffs sought to rebuild their beachfront house after it was destroyed. Originally...more

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Publisher’s Co-Authorship Claim Arises Under Copyright Act, Invoking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction

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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a copyright authorship dispute, finding that the district court had exclusive jurisdiction over the case because a book publisher’s claim...more

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Threshold Issues, Misdirected Lawyering, and a Frustrated Federal Circuit

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The Federal Circuit, in an opinion by Judge O’Malley, did not hold back in expressing its displeasure in being asked to resolve a claim construction dispute in AntennaSys, Inc., v. AQYR Technologies, Inc. and Windmill...more

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From the Top in Brief - June 2020

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down three rulings potentially impacting bankruptcy cases. Nunc Pro Tunc Relief - In Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan v. Acevedo Feliciano, No. 18-921, 2020 WL 871715 (U.S....more

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Nunc Pro Tunc Anyone?

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On February 24, 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a case Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan v. Feliciano in connection with removal of a state court matter to Federal court, something that may have a...more

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Did the Supreme Court Really Ban Nunc Pro Tunc Orders?

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The U.S. Supreme Court in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico v. Acevedo Feliciano, No. 18-921, 2020 WL 871715, at * (U.S. Feb. 24, 2020) in a per curiam opinion that turned on a state court’s jurisdiction...more

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Fourth Circuit Considers Limits of Federalism

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Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. Marbury v. Madison (circa 1803) is perhaps the most famous example of this principle. But the limits of federal jurisdiction are regularly tested in our courts today. One...more

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A Dart Across the Bow

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently underscored that removal practice under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) differs in some important respects from traditional removal practice in non-CAFA cases. It did so...more

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Texas’ Anti-SLAPP Regime Does Not Apply in Federal Diversity Cases, Says the Fifth Circuit

A recent decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Klocke v. Watson, No. 17-11320 (August 23, 2019), appears to have answered a perennial jurisdictional question that had split federal district courts in Texas for...more

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Key California Employment Law Cases: April 2018

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This month’s key California employment law cases are two decisions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Chavez v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., 888 F.3d 413 (9th Cir. 2018) - Summary: Amount in controversy for federal...more

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Unanimous Supreme Court: WOTUS Rule Challenges Belong in Federal District Courts

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In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court today held that lawsuits challenging the 2015 rule amending the definition of waters of the United States (WOTUS Rule) under the Clean Water Act (CWA) must be brought in federal...more

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Growing Consensus in the Courts of Appeals against Alternative-Citizenship Theory of Diversity under CAFA

If a putative class of plaintiffs, all citizens of State A, sues a corporate defendant, which the law considers to be a citizen of State A and State B, in state court, may the defendant remove the case to federal court under...more

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A Corporation May Not Pick And Choose Its Citizenship To Create Diversity Under CAFA

The Sixth Circuit became the third court of appeals to reject the “alternative citizenship” theory of diversity under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA). In Roberts v. Mars Petcare US, Inc., a putative class of Tennessee...more

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Third Circuit Declines to Send Pay-for-Delay Litigation to Federal Circuit

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Addressing questions of federal jurisdiction, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that it, and not the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, had jurisdiction over two consolidated appeals arising from...more

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Sixth Circuit Rules that the Class Action Fairness Act Means What it Says

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A statute, distilled to its essence, is thought conveyed through words. And when those words are understandable and coherently arranged, there’s nothing for courts to do when adjudicating disputes involving them, other than...more

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Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Allows Federal Courts To “Look Through” § 10 FAA Petition To Determine Federal Jurisdiction

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed its own precedent to allow federal courts examining petitions under § 10 of the FAA to “look through” the petition to examine if there is federal...more

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Temporary Finality? The Fifth Circuit Says “No Dice.”

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Federalism, like love, is a many-splendored thing. And although stark manifestations are easy to see coming, subtle distinctions can rear their heads in surprising places. Such was the case last month in Luvata Grenada,...more

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The Class Action Chronicle - Fall 2015

This is the ninth edition of The Class Action Chronicle, a quarterly publication that provides an analysis of recent class action trends, along with a summary of class certification and Class Action Fairness Act rulings...more

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Patent Infringement and Appellate Jurisdiction

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In general, any appeal from a civil action involving claims of patent infringement must be made to the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. A recent case from the Ninth Circuit, Amity Rubberized Pen Company v. Market Quest...more

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Eleventh Circuit Throws Open The Door To State-Law Class Actions In Federal Court

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In a first-of-its-kind opinion that could open the class action flood gates, the Eleventh Circuit has held that state consumer fraud class actions may proceed in federal court even if the state consumer fraud statute...more

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Seventh Circuit: "Frivolous" Argument Saves Jurisdiction

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The Seventh Circuit issued an important opinion by Judge Easterbrook today, Lu Junhong v. Boeing Co., No. 14-1825, a clump of cases that arose after an Asiana Airlines jet manufactured by Boeing struck a seawall while landing...more

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