Legal Opinion
Kirsten Knudsen, Chris Baker, and Vikki Baker, Plaintiffs-Respondents v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Defendant-Petitioner
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 7, 2005No. 05-8010PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, Pub.L. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (2005), permits defendants to remove certain class actions to federal court if minimal diversity of citizenship exists. Section 9 tells us that it applies only to suits “commenced on or after the date of enactment of this Act.” That date is February 18, 2005. Invoking the removal authority under § 5, codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1453, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company removed this class action, which had been pending in state court since March 2000. The district judge promptly sent it back, observing that…
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