9th Circ. Comes Around On CAFA

Law360, New York (April 14, 2015, 4:52 PM EDT) -- When Congress passed the Class Action Fairness Act in 2005, the Ninth Circuit was slow to understand CAFA's expansive reach. In decisions like Abrego Abrego v. Dow Chemical Co., the Ninth Circuit was not convinced that Congress had intended "to alter the jurisdictional terrain,"[1] unless CAFA's plain language dictated otherwise. The Ninth Circuit's view was narrow. That has now changed....

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