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· 11/18/2011

Lg Display Company v. Lisa Madigan

Citations

  • 665 F.3d 768
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 23036
  • 2011 WL 5829918

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that state attorney general’s parens patriae action was not a class action under federal Class Action Fairness Act
  • holding parens patriae action was not removable as a “class action” nor as a “mass action” under CAFA
  • reasoning that Caldwell “did not adopt the claim-by-claim approach based on any language in CAFA itself, nor is there any such language to be found”
  • parens patriae suit not a mass action because the Attorney General is the only plaintiff
  • parens patriae suit not removable under CAFA despite claim for treble damages on behalf of harmed residents
  • “A class action must be brought as a class action. This case was brought as a parens patriae suit[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Flaum, Williams, Tinder

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