Legal Opinion
Lao v. Wickes Furniture Co., Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided October 4, 2006No. EDCV 06 448 SGL OPXPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO REMAND
LARSON, District Judge.
This case requires the Court to examine the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”), a statute in which some major terms are left undefined, certain of the provisions of which have been aptly characterized as “bewildering” or “clumsily crafted,” and whose legislative history is, in part, of questionable interpretive value. In short, it is a statute that is a headache to construe.
On April 7, 2006, plaintiffs filed a class action suit in San Bernardino County Superior Court. The proposed class represents those who were or…
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