State of MISSISSIPPI, ex rel. Jim HOOD, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION; AU Optronics Corporation America, Incorporated; Chi Mei Corporation; Chimei Innolux Corporation, formerly known as Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation; Chi Mei Optoelectronics USA, Incorporated, formerly known as International Display Technology USA, Incorporated; CMO Japan Company, Limited, formerly known as International Display Technology, Limited; Hannstar Display Corporation; Hitachi, Limited; Japan Display East, Incorporated; Hitachi Electronic Devices (USA); LG Display Company, Limited, formerly known as LG Phillips LCD Company, Limited; LG Display America, Incorporated, formerly known as LGD LCD America, Incorporated; Samsung Electronics Company LTD; Samsung Semiconductor, Incorporated; Samsung Electronics America, Incorporated; Sharp Corporation; Sharp Electronics Corporation; Toshiba Corporation; Toshiba Mobile Display Company, Limited, formerly known as Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Company, Limited; Toshiba America Electronic Components, Incorporated; Toshiba America Information Systems, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 21, 2012.
November 21, 2012.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Meredith McCollum Aldridge, Geoffrey C. Morgan, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gens., George W. Neville, Office of the Atty. Gen., Jackson, MS, Carolyn Glass Anderson, Patricia A. Bloodgood, David Michael Cialkowski (argued), Kirsten D. Hedberg, Zimmerman Reed, P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Luther T. Munford, James William Shelson, Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P., Stephen Lee Thomas, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, L.L.P., Thomas C. Gerity, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, L.L.P., Walter Helms Boone, Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy, L.L.P., Philip William Thomas, Law Offices of Phillip W. Thomas, P.A., Charles Edwin Ross (argued), Rebecca Hawkins, Michael Brunson Wallace, Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A., Jackson, MS, Christopher A. Nedeau, Nossaman, L.L.P., Michelle Kim-Szrom, Kent M. Roger, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., John M. Grenfell, Jacob R. Sorenson, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, Harrison J. Frahn, IV, Simpson Thacher, Palo Alto, CA, Hugh F. Bangasser, Ramona M. Emerson, Christopher M. Wyant, K&L Gates, L.L.P., Seattle, WA, Robert Arrington Miller, Patrick Ryan Beckett, John Adam Crawford, Jr., Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, P.L.L.C., Cecil Maison Heidelberg, Heidelberg Harmon, P.L.L.C., Ridgeland, MS, Michael R. Lazerwitz, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, L.L.P., Timothy C. Hester, Covington & Burling, L.L.P., Andrew Lovelace Black, White & Case, L.L.P., Washington, DC, John H. Chung, Ross Elfand, Kristen McAhren, White & Case, L.L.P., New York City, for Defendants-Appellants.
Before JOLLY, CLEMENT and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, manufacturers and distributors of liquid crystal display ("LCD") panels, jointly removed this case to federal district court on the grounds that (1) the action was a "class action" under the Class Action Fairness Act ("CAFA"), 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(1)(B), or (2) the action was a "mass action" under the CAFA, § 1332(d)(11)(B). The State of Mississippi, Appellee, then moved to remand the case to state court, and the...
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