COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGEONS OF PUERTO RICO, Plaintiff, Appellee,
v.
CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Defendants, Appellants.
Triple-S Management, Inc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted September 1, 2009.
Decided October 22, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Charles P. Scheeler and DLA Piper LLP (US) on brief for defendant-appellant Connecticut General Life Insurance Company.
Frank Gotay-Barquet and Gotay & Perez, P.S.C. on brief for defendant-appellant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Edna Hernández-Arroyo, María Luisa Martínez-López, and Ávila, Martínez & Hernández, P.S.C. on brief for plaintiff-appellee. Manuel A. Pietrantoni, César T. Alcover Acosta, Casellas Alcover & Burgos, P.S.C., Rafael Escalera Rodríguez, and Reichard & Escalera on brief for defendants-appellees Triple-S Management, Inc., Triple-S, Inc., Triple-C, Inc., La Cruz Azul de Puerto Rico, Inc., and American Health, Inc.
José A. Acosta-Grubb, María L. Montalvo-Vera, José Luis Ramírez-Coll, and Fiddler Gonzáles & Rodríguez, P.S.C. on brief for defendant-appellee Delta Dental Plan of Puerto Rico, Inc.
German J. Brau and Usera Morell Bauzá Dapena & Cartagena on brief for defendants-appellees Preferred Medicare Choice, Inc., and MMM Health Care, Inc.
Luis Sánchez Betances, Adrián Sánchez Pagán, and Sánchez Betances, Sifre & Muñoz Noya, P.S.C. on brief for defendants-appellees MAPFRE Life Insurance Company and Mennonite General Hospital, Inc.
Carlos José Onetti Irizarry, Fermín M. Contreras Gómez, and Estuido Legal Fermín M. Contreras Gómez on brief for defendants-appellees Medical Card System, Inc., MCS Health Management Options, Inc., and MCS Advantage, Inc.
Before SELYA, BOUDIN and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The pivotal question in this appeal is whether removal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), Pub.L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (2005), may attach even though the complaint does not specifically define a proposed class. The district court answered this question in the negative and remanded the case to the local court in which it had originated. Coll. of Dental Surgeons of P.R. v. Triple-S Mgmt., Inc., Civ. No. 09-1209, 2009...
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