United States Ninth Circuit

In a class action alleging that defendants' oil refineries violated various California labor laws, the district court's order remanding the case to state court is reversed where the denial of class certification did not divest federal courts of jurisdiction over cases properly removed under 28 U.S.C. section 1332(d).

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2010
• Decided 04/21/2010
• Published 04/21/2010

Judges

• Before FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy M. Rusche, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Los Angeles, CA; and Deanna L. Ballesteros and Angel Gomez, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Robert A. Cantore, Gilbert & Sackman, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.