Highlights from this issue include:
- Immigration. There were many decisions by classes seeking certification of habeas claims related to President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act that reached different decisions on whether to certify classes.
- CAFA Removal. The Northern District of California remanded to state court a wage and hour case removed to federal court under Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) because (1) the defendant relied on unreasonable assumptions to calculate unpaid overtime wages, unpaid minimum wages, and liquidated damages, and (2) the defendant relied on the Ninth Circuit’s benchmark for common fund class actions to calculate estimated attorneys’ fees, when the fee-shifting statute at issue was calculated using the lodestar method.
