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7th Circ. Says Random Sampling Works For CAFA, Not How

Law360, New York (October 15, 2014, 10:26 AM EDT) -- On Aug. 19, 2014, the Seventh Circuit held that a plaintiff seeking to remand a putative class action under the Class Action Fairness Act's home-state exception must produce evidence allowing the court to determine the putative class members' citizenship as of the date the case was removed to federal court. The court suggested a plaintiff might meet his burden by randomly sampling the citizenship of putative class members and extrapolating those results to the entire putative class....

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