procedural-gamesmanship

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-434 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, By Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, Trustees ad Litem Third Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) CAFA cafa-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdictional-rules procedural-gamesmanship removal standing voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether plaintiffs can evade federal CAFA jurisdiction through pleading artifices, while pursuing a representative action for the purported benefit…
23A205 Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, an unincorporated association, by Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, trustees ad litem Third Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete class-action-definition class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction procedural-gamesmanship removal-jurisdiction rule-41-dismissal Whether class action plaintiffs may subvert the jurisdictional protections of the Class Action Fairness Act through procedural gamesmanship by dismiss…