Court Opinion

ID: 9485156
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 10:45:02.882213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:50:50.998502
License: Public Domain

GOULD, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I dissent and would grant reconsideration and would permit appeal. We have decisions in different district courts in Nevada and Arizona going in opposite directions on the same or very similar issues. Although we have permitted appeal in Nevada v. Bank of America Corp., No. 11-80165, there are ways in which that decision might be resolved without clarifying the legal points concerning application of the Class Action Fairness Act to parens patriae actions in which an attorney general seeks restitution for state citizens, on which our district courts are divided. In my view, if there is one thing we should readily do as a circuit, it is to take steps to eliminate intra-circuit conflicts in our district courts. A state attorney general should face the same law and orientation of a district court in each of the states within our circuit. To my thinking, it just doesn’t make sense to leave the attorney generals of the various states at sea when we could easily simplify and clarify matters by permitting appeal in both this decision coming from Arizona and the related case in Nevada on which we are allowing an appeal. A panel hearing both appeals on an expedited basis could provide an opinion that would set uniform law within our circuit. I regret that our panel here passes on that opportunity.