Legal Opinion
Lussier v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 7, 2008No. 06-35148PublishedCited by 322 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
John Lussier and Mary Hawks, putative class representatives in litigation against Dollar Tree Stores, Inc., appeal the district court’s denial of their request for attorney’s fees following their successful motion to remand the underlying action after it had been removed by Dollar Tree pursuant to the recently enacted Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(2) (2005). We conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that, given the lack of clarity in the law at the time, Dollar Tree’s removal arguments were not…
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