CAFA Jurisdiction Rejected In Multiple Cases Over Elder Care During Hurricane

Mealey's (March 23, 2022, 9:41 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana on March 17 remanded nearly two dozen consolidated cases accusing numerous parties of failing to properly provide for nursing home residents taken to a Louisiana warehouse in summer 2021 due to a hurricane, finding that Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) jurisdiction didn’t exist in those cases brought as class actions and that supplemental jurisdiction may not be exercised in the other cases....