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State AG Action Can Stay in State Court Despite CAFA, Says Seventh Circuit

By Barry Barnett on November 20, 2011

The Seventh Circuit split with the Fifth over whether a lawsuit by a state attorney general counts as a “class” or “mass” action that the Class Action Fairness Act [sic] allows defendants to remove to federal from state court. The panel held that CAFA doesn’t reach such a “parens patriae” case if the complaint as…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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