Legal Opinion
Estate of Pew v. Cardarelli
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 14, 2008No. Docket 06-5703-mvPublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:
This case construes certain provisions of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”), Pub.L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (codified in scattered sections of Title 28, United States Code). One purpose of CAFA is to provide a federal forum for securities cases that have national impact, without impairing the ability of state courts to decide cases of chiefly local import or cases that concern traditional state regulation of the state’s corporate creatures. CAFA does that by expanding federal diversity jurisdiction, by allowing removal of securities cases of national…
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