Ashley Taylor will be a participant at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, which will be held in Boston, MA on August 9.
He will be speaking at the “The Class Action Fairness Act and State Attorney General Enforcement Actions: Does the Supreme Court's Ruling Open a New Door for the States?” On January 14, 2014, the Supreme Court issued its unanimous opinion in Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics Corp. on the removability of certain cases from state to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA). While the Supreme Court’s decision focused on the text of the CAFA statute, our panel of experts, including the Mississippi Attorney General, will discuss the scope and breadth of a state’s parens patriae authority, the federalism issues related to state Attorneys General actions under CAFA, and the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling on multi-state enforcement actions.