Hart v. FedEx Ground Package System Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding “that the plaintiff has the burden of persuasion on the question whether the home-state or local controversy exceptions apply”
• indicating that the court was not persuaded that this rationale supported the result
• indicating that the court was not persuaded that this rationale supported the result
• stating that CAFA is “intended to expand substantially federal court jurisdiction over class actions[; i]ts provisions should be read broadly, with a strong preference that interstate class actions should be heard in a federal court if properly removed by any defendant.”
• finding Evans ’ policy rationale for placing the burden of establishing subsection (d)(4)’s provisions on plaintiffs “not persua[sive]”
• affirming the district court's order remanding a case to state court for lack of complete diversity of the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).