Jerry Dunson v. Cordis Corporation

OPINION

WATFORD, Circuit Judge:

Under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), Pub. L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4, large multi-state class actions may be removed to federal court under requirements more permissive than those governing the removal of other civil actions. To prevent plaintiffs from evading CAFA’s relaxed jurisdictional requirements, Congress made “mass actions” removable to federal court on largely the same basis as class actions. Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp., — U.S. -, 134 5.Ct. 736, 744, 187 L.Ed.2d 654 (2014). A “mass action” is defined as a civil action,…