A precedent-setting 3d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion took a broad view of when Class Action Fairness Act cases can move to state court from federal court. The court analyzed two separate issues of first impression related to CAFA's so-called local controversy exception. In a written opinion by Circuit Judge D. Brooks Smith released on March 26, a three-judge panel declared that the local controversy exception doesn't require every class member to assert a claim against the local defendant in order to exempt the case from federal jurisdiction.
April 06, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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