Legal Opinion
Santamarina, Guiller v. Sears Roebuck
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 19, 2006No. 06-3054PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This class action, originally filed in a California state court, charged Sears Roebuck with having violated California law by fraudulently representing that certain of its “Craftsman” brand of tools are manufactured in the United States that in fact are manufactured abroad. The suit was filed in January 2005, the month prior to the passage (and effective date) of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, which so far as bears on this case places within federal diversity jurisdiction a class action suit in which the amount in controversy exceeds $5 million and at least one…
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