Legal Opinion
Greenwich Financial Services Distressed Mortgage Fund 3 LLC v. Countrywide Financial Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 20, 2010No. Docket 09-3660-cvPublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide when a provision of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”) bars appellate review of orders remanding securities class actions to state court.
Plaintiffs-appellees commenced this putative class action in New York State Supreme Court. The case was removed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Richard J. Holwell, J.). Plaintiffs-appellees moved to remand the case to state court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. They argued that, while CAFA extended federal jurisdiction for most…
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