NEW JERSEY CARPENTERS VAC. v. HARBORVIEW MORTG.

No. 08cv5093(HB).

581 F.Supp.2d 581 (2008)

NEW JERSEY CARPENTERS VACATION FUND, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-4, HarborView Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-5, HarborView Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-5, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, plc, Greenwich Capital Financial Products, Inc., Robert J. McGinnis, Carol P. Mathis, Joseph N. Walsh, III, John C. Anderson, James C. Esposito, Fitch Ratings, Moody's Investors Service, Inc., and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 24, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Lometti, Joel Paul Laitman, Daniel Brett Rehns, Frank Rocco Schirripa, Schoengold Sporn Laitman & Lometti, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Adam Nelson Zurofsky, Floyd Abrams, Susan Buckley, Tammy Lynn Roy, Sarah Penny Windle, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, Christopher Jon Lucht, James Gaal Gamble, Thomas C. Rice, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Martin Flumenbaum, Roberta Ann Kaplan, Tobias James Stern, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, James J. Coster, Joshua M. Rubins, Mario Aieta, Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, for Defendants.


OPINION & ORDER

HAROLD BAER, JR., District Judge:

This putative class action, which is rooted in the mortgage-backed securities crisis, addresses an issue of first impression in this Circuit—whether the removal provision of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, Pub.L. 109-2, § 4(a), 119 Stat. 9, Feb. 18, 2005 ("CAFA"), trumps the anti-removal provision of Section 22(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. § 77a et seq...

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