HAWAII EX REL. LOUIE v. HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A.

No. 13-15611.

761 F.3d 1027 (2014)

State of HAWAII, ex rel. David M. LOUIE, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A., Defendant in 1:12-cv-00266-LEK-KSC; HSBC Card Services, Inc., Defendant in 1:12-cv-00266-LEK-KSC; Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., Defendant in 1:12-cv-00268-LEK-KSC; Capital One Services, LLC, Defendant in 1:12-cv-00268-LEK-KSC; Citigroup, Inc., Defendant in 1:12-cv-00271-LEK-KSC; Citibank, N.A., Defendant in 1:12-cv-00271-LEK-KSC; Department Stores National Bank, Defendant in 1:12-cv-00271-LEK-KSC; Doe, 1-20, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 1, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura J. Baughman , J. Burton LeBlanc, IV , and Sherri Ann Saucer (argued), Baron & Budd, P.C., Dallas, Texas; Richard Golomb and Kenneth J. Grunfeld , Golomb & Honik, P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; L. Richard Fried, Jr. and Patrick F. McTernan , Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks, Honolulu, Hawaii, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Michael C. Bird , Summer H.M. Fergerstrom , and Tracey Lynn Kubota , Watanabe Ing LLP, Honolulu, Hawaii; Julia B. Strickland , David W. Moon , and Jason Sung-Hyuk Yoo , Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A. and HSBC Card Services, Inc.

James F. McCabe (argued) and James R. McGuire , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, California; Margery S. Bronster and Andrew L. Pepper , Bronster Hoshibata, Honolulu, Hawaii, for Defendants-Appellees Capital One Bank (USA), N.A. and Capital One Services, LLC.

Michael Purpura and Michael J. Scanlon , Carlsmith Ball LLP, Honolulu, Hawaii; Noah A. Levine and Robert W. Trenchard , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Citigroup Inc., Citibank, N.A., and Department Stores National Bank.

Before: WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, SANDRA S. IKUTA, and ANDREW D. HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

HURWITZ, Circuit Judge.

The Hawaii Attorney General filed complaints in state court against six credit card providers, alleging that each violated state law by deceptively marketing and improperly enrolling cardholders in add-on credit card products. The card providers removed the cases to federal court, and the Attorney General moved to remand. The district court concluded that the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), 28 U.S.C. § 1332...

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