Laura Jordan v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC

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• holding that removal was timely when done within 30 days of plaintiff's responses to interrogatories stating that total amount in controversy exceeded $5 million threshold for removal
• holding that “a defendant may remove a case from state court within thirty days of ascertaining that the action is removable under CAFA, even if an earlier pleading, document, motion, order, or other paper revealed an alternative basis for federal jurisdiction”
• “[A] defendant may remove a case from state court within thirty days of ascertaining that the action is removable under CAFA[.]”
• “[W]e hold that a case becomes ‘removable’ for purposes of section 1446 when the CAFA ground for removal is first disclosed.”
• “Congress and the 12 Supreme Court have instructed us to interpret CAFA’s provisions under section 1332 broadly in 13 favor of removal.”
• “A case becomes 11 ‘removable’ for purposes of section 1446 when the CAFA ground for removal is 12 disclosed.”

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