Melissa Ramirez v. Vintage Pharmaceuticals LLC

OPINION OF THE COURT

VANASKIE, Circuit Judge.

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”), Pub. L. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (2005), extends federal jurisdiction to “mass actions.” See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(ll). One mandatory characteristic of a mass action is a proposal by more than one hundred persons to try their claims jointly. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(ll)(B)(i). However, cases that are consolidated or coordinated only for pretrial purposes are explicitly exempted from CAFA’s mass action provision, and thus are not removable. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(ll)(B)(ii)(IV). The question before us on appeal…