Non-Class Claims Cannot Help Satisfy CAFA Jurisdictional Amount: Ninth Circuit | Practical Law
In Yocupicio v. PAE Group, LLC, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that where a complaint contains class claims and non-class claims, and the class claims do not meet the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005's (CAFA) amount-in-controversy requirement, the amount involved in the non-class claims cannot help satisfy the CAFA jurisdictional amount.