9th Circuit Vacates Remand Of Recorded Calls Suit Based On Incomplete Class

(October 24, 2017, 12:35 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A district court erred when it remanded a class suit over phone calls that were allegedly recorded without permission based on the Class Action Fairness Act’s (CAFA) home-state exception as the decision was based on the analysis of an incomplete class, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Oct. 20 (Tiffany Brinkley, et al. v. Monterey Financial Services, Inc., et al., No. 17-56335, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 20668)....