SAN FRANCISCO – Following new guidance from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit has made it harder for plaintiffs to stop putative class actions from being removed to federal court.
Ruling unanimously Tuesday, the three-judge panel held that plaintiffs can no longer act as "masters of the complaint," free to forego some amount of damages to avoid federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, or CAFA.
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