Ninth Circuit Holds CAFA Jurisdictional Amount Cannot Be Met By Aggregating Class, Non-Class Claims

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held that, in determining whether a putative class action satisfied the jurisdictional requirements of the federal Class Action Fairness Act, amounts in controversy as to non-class and class claims may not be aggregated to meet CAFA’s diversity requirements. More specifically, the Ninth Circuit held that, […]

Andrew Williamson