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Abstract
President Bush signed the Class Action Fairness Act ("CAFA") into law on Feb 18, 2005. The law facilitates removal of class actions from state court to federal court. In addition, it regulates the selection of class counsel, lightens control of attorneys' fees awarded to class counsel, toughens pleading standards, reduces the ability of class counsel to dictate the choice of forum, facilitates interlocutory appeals of class certification rulings, and regulates settlements of class actions. In large part, the CAFA has significantly altered forum-selection and claim-selection strategies of the plaintiffs' lawyers in litigating class actions. In 2010, federal courts decided many CAFA-related cases. This article examines decisions in various circuit courts of appeals and the US Supreme Court, in which the courts applied the CAFA in an employment-related context.