In its first year on the books, the federal Class Action Fairness Act has proven to be difficult for plaintiffs to challenge, as evidenced by a pair of recent decisions handed down by Eastern District of Pennsylvania judges who refused to send the cases back to the state courts where they began.
CAFA, which took effect on Feb. 18, 2005, permits defendants to remove certain class actions to federal court if “minimal diversity of citizenship exists.”
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