United States Ninth Circuit

District court's order remanding a class action to California state court is vacated and remanded where: 1) the district court erred in determining the citizenship of the plaintiff class by considering the class as pleaded in the second amended complaint, which was filed after the action had been removed from state court; and 2) for the purpose of considering the applicability of the exceptions to Class Action Fairness Act jurisdiction, the district court should have determined the citizenship of the plaintiff class based on the complaint as of the date the case became removable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/22/2014
• Published 08/22/2014

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• United States Ninth Circuit

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