Legal Opinion
Valdez v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance
District Court, D. New Mexico
Decided March 19, 2012No. CIV 11-0507 JB/KBMPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JAMES 0. BROWNING, District Judge.
THIS MATTER comes before the Court on the Plaintiffs’ Memorandum Motion to Remand to State Court for Lack of Federal Jurisdiction, filed June 24, 2011 (Doc. 55)(“Motion”). The Court held a hearing on March 7, 2012. The primary issues are: (i) whether the Court has subject-matter jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(A) (“CAFA”) or the traditional diversity-jurisdiction analysis, under 28 U.S.C. § 1332; and (ii) if the Court has jurisdiction, whether the Court should decline to exer*1147cise that…
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