Ninth Circuit Panel Eviscerates 2014 'En Banc' Decision That Protects CAFA Removal Rights

Congress adopted the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) in 2005 in response to concerns that plaintiffs’ lawyers were gaming the system to prevent removal of class actions and “mass actions” (lawsuits with more than 100 named plaintiffs) from state court to federal court. CAFA provided state-court defendants the option of [...]