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Roberts v. Tribeca Automotive, Inc., 2019 WL 522127 (D.N.J. February 11, 2019) In this action, the District Court of New Jersey adopted a magistrate’s recommendation which granted the plaintiff...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/district-court-of-new-jersey-declines-cafa-jurisdiction-in-a-matter-that-is-uniquely-local-pursuant-to-cafas-interests-of-justice-exception

Scott v. Cricket Communications, LLC, 15-03330-GLR (D. Md. March 30, 2018) Reiterating that a court will not protect a party from the adverse consequences of its own voluntary acts, a District C...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/unintended-consequences-careful-how-you-amend

McAllister v. The St. Louis Rams, LLC, No. 4:16-cv-00172 (E.D. Mo. Feb. 12, 2018). In this action, while remanding a case to state court, a district court in Missouri found that the plaintiffs�...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/burden-of-proof-of-a-party-invoking-the-local-controversy-exception-is-by-a-preponderance-or-more-than-50-of-the-evidence

Robertson v. Sun Life Financial, 2:17-cv-02148-SSV-JVM (E.D. La. Jan. 22, 2018) In this action, a Louisiana District Court denied a motion to remand, finding that the Plaintiff’s generic demand...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/generic-demand-for-damages-does-not-justify-local-controversy-exception-to-cafa

Pattison v. Omnitrition International, Inc. No. 2:17-cv-01454 (W. D. Wa. Jan. 5, 2018). In this action, while granting the defendants’ motion for reconsideration of the order remanding the mat...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/sworn-declaration-itself-serves-as-factual-evidence-supporting-the-amount-in-controversy

White Knight Diner, LLC v. Arbitration Forums, Inc. No. 4:17-cv-02406 (E.D. Mo. Jan. 12, 2018). In this action, while denying the plaintiffs’ motion to remand, a District Court in Missouri fou...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/a-resident-is-not-the-same-as-a-citizen-for-purposes-of-cafas-local-controversy-exception

Walsh v. Defenders, Inc, 2018 WL 555690 (D.N.J. Jan. 25, 2018). On a motion for reconsideration, a District Court in New Jersey reversed an earlier ruling denying a motion to remand based on the ...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/local-controversy-test-does-not-require-a-showing-that-the-local-defendants-conduct-forms-a-more-significant-basis-for-the-claims-asserted-than-the-conduct-of-the-other-defendants

Kenny v Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., et al., 2018 WL 650998 (9th Cir. Feb. 1, 2018). In this action, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the “Ninth Circuit”) found that a dist...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/sua-sponte-remand-by-the-district-court-is-only-appropriate-when-based-on-a-defect-in-subject-matter-jurisdiction

Sanchez v. Ameriflight, LLC, 2018 WL 654170 (9th Cir. Feb. 1, 2018). Here, the Ninth Circuit found that where parties were not diverse at the onset of the action, a post-filing change in citizens...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/post-filing-change-in-citizenship-does-not-satisfy-minimum-diversity-requirement-under-cafa

Allred v. Kellogg_Company, et al., 2018 WL 332904 (S.D. Cal. Jan. 9, 2018). A California district court denied the plaintiff’s motion to remand, holding that the statistical assumptions used in...

https://www.cafalawblog.com/case-summaries/statistical-assumptions-if-based-in-reason-may-be-used-to-prove-that-cafas-amount-in-controversy-requirement-has-been-satisfied