Volume 39 Number 3 -- September 2006

Developments in the Law: the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005

Table of Contents

I.    Foreward by Georgene M. Vairo

II.   Removal, Remand, and Other Procedural Issues Under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 by Lauren D. Fredricks

III.  Plaintiffs' Paradise Lost: Diversity of Citizenship and Amount in Controversy Under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 by Cameron Fredman

IV.  Once More Into the Breach, Dear Friends: the Case for Congressional Revision of the Mass Actions Provisions in the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 by S. Amy Spencer

V.   New Rules for Class-Action Settlements: the Consumer Class Action Bill of Rights by Jennifer Gibson

VI.  The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: a First Year Retrospective Review by Lonny Sheinkopf Hoffman