Legal Opinion
Hargett v. Revclaims, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 14, 2017No. 17-1339, No. 17-1340PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) broadened federal jurisdiction over class actions but excepted controversies that are primarily local in nature. District courts must decline to exercise jurisdiction over these matters. Congress has defined the features of a local controversy. As relevant to this appeal, a class action is a local controversy if local citizens predominate over non-locals in the class membership — that is, if more than two-thirds of the class members are “citizens of the State in which the action was originally filed.” 28 U.S.C. §…
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