Court Opinion

ID: 9799102
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 05:46:45.088747+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:44.481545
License: Public Domain

THOMAS, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the majority opinion. I write separately only to note my prior disagreement on the question of whether claims under the Labor Code Private Attorney General Act of 2004, Cal. Lab.Code § 2698 et seq, can be aggregated in determining whether diversity jurisdiction exists. Urbino v. Orkin Services of California, Inc., 726 F.3d 1118, 1123 (9th Cir.2013) (Thomas, J., dissenting). Urbino is law of the circuit, of course, and binds this panel. However, if I were writing on a clean slate, I would hold otherwise as to the question of aggregation.