Court Opinion

ID: 9518648
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:57:59.547713+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:29:42.462027
License: Public Domain

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge,
dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc:
While I find the petition for rehearing persuasive, I do not request a poll of the court. Because there is a respectable division of opinion on the issue of whether a party joined as an additional defendant to a counterclaim has rights under the Class Action Fairness Act, I prefer to release this case to the early consideration of the Supreme Court. This is an important issue of statutory interpretation, and the majority’s interpretation creates an unfortunate loophole in the Class Action Fairness Act that only the Supreme Court can now rectify.