Legal Opinion
Antonio Abrego Abrego v. The Dow Chemical Co Shell Oil Company, D/B/A Shell Chemical Company, and Shell Agricultural Chemical Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 4, 2006No. 06-55109PublishedCited by 1,896 opinions
1Per curiam
The recently enacted Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”), Pub.L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4, alters the landscape for federal court jurisdiction over class actions. In addition to traditional class actions, CAFA covers certain other cases involving large numbers of plaintiffs, denominated “mass actions.” Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) brings this interlocutory appeal, 1 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1453(c)(1), 2 from the district court’s order remanding this purported “mass action.”
Dow maintains that under CAFA and contrary to preexisting removal jurisdiction law: (1) plaintiffs bear the burden…
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