Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that a plaintiff seeking to remand a putative class action under the Class Action Fairness Act’s (“CAFA”) home-state exception must produce evidence allowing the court to determine the putative class members’ citizenship as of the date the case was removed to federal court.
The Missouri Supreme Court Affirms Decision Requiring Insurance Indemnification Beyond Coverage in Telephone Consumer Protection Act Litigation
A threshold– and critical– determination in the defense of litigation brought pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. Sec. 227 et seq. (“TCPA” or “Act”) is whether an insurance policy provides coverage of the allegations set forth in the Complaint. In a recent decision by the Missouri Supreme Court in Columbia Casualty Company