AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION LOC. 1309 v. LAIDLAW TRAN. SER.

No. 05-56567.

435 F.3d 1140 (2006)

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION LOCAL 1309, AFL-CIO; Selma Shackleford; Gregory Passmore; Ronald G. Duncan; Timothy Thurmann; Samuel J. Frank; Alexander Bradley; Michele L. Boswell; John A. Taylor; Terrence Sandidge; Kuniyuki Kashiuagi; Gwenaida Cole; Lela Shipman; Sharon K. Harris; Fabis Horton III; Philip Bingham, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LAIDLAW TRANSIT SERVICES, INC.; First Transit, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 26, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Anderson and Scott M. De Nardo, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

John C. Wynne and Vivian W. Schultz, San Diego, CA, for defendant-appellee, First Transit Services, Inc.

Before GOODWIN, TASHIMA and FISHER, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

This is an attempt to appeal from the district court's order denying plaintiffs' motion to remand this action to California state court. We address procedural issues related to the perfecting of an appeal under the recently enacted Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, and hold that Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 5 governs the initiation of such appeals, and that the petition for permission to take an appeal must be filed not more than seven court days after...

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