Class Action Fairness Act of 2005

Pub. L. 109–2

US Codex doesn’t hold the enacted text of this law — the public-law corpus runs from the 113th Congress (2013) onward. What it changed in the U.S. Code, reconstructed from the credit notes, is listed below.

9 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 108-498 and Public Law 109-173.

• 28 U.S.C. § 1332 — Diversity of citizenship; amount in controversy; costs
• 28 U.S.C. § 1335 — Interpleader
• 28 U.S.C. § 1453 — Removal of class actions
• 28 U.S.C. § 1603 — Definitions
• 28 U.S.C. § 1711 — Definitions
• 28 U.S.C. § 1712 — Coupon settlements
• 28 U.S.C. § 1713 — Protection against loss by class members
• 28 U.S.C. § 1714 — Protection against discrimination based on geographic location
• 28 U.S.C. § 1715 — Notifications to appropriate Federal and State officials