Removal, CAFA, Standard Fire Ins. Co. v. Knowles

Sixth Circuit Adopts Bright Line Test for CAFA Removals

BakerHostetler on 4/8/2016

Eyeglass case provides focus for employment class action removals - Congress enacted the Class Action Fairness Act, better known as “CAFA,” to address some of the well-documented abuses of class action litigation. Among...more

Knowles Gives Employer Second Chance To Seek And Win Removal

Carlton Fields on 4/2/2014

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that neither a damages waiver nor the passage of more than 30 days after receipt of a complaint prevented an employer’s removal under CAFA. A putative class of California store...more

It Just Got Easier To Remove Class Actions

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 9/5/2013

In Rodriguez v. AT&T Mobility Services LLC the Ninth Circuit cited recent United States Supreme Court precedent to make it more difficult for class action plaintiffs to pursue their claims in state court. Rodriquez has...more

Ninth Circuit Falls In Line With Supreme Court Ruling on Class Action Removals

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/30/2013

In Rodriguez v. AT&T Mobility, LLC, the Ninth Circuit continues a string of recent decisions cracking down on district courts’ tendency to remand class actions on the purported basis that the defendant failed to meet the...more

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

BakerHostetler on 6/14/2013

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)....more

Product Liability Update - April 2013

Foley Hoag LLP on 4/23/2013

In This Issue: - United States Supreme Court Holds Class Certification Improper Absent Showing Plaintiffs’ Damages Can Be Measured on a Classwide Basis through Use of a Common Methodology that Is Consistent with...more