 Hundreds of plaintiffs had brought actions against Teva in various California state courts and had asked that the cases be coordinated before one state court judge “for all purposes.” The defendants sought to remove the cases to federal court pursuant to the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”), on the ground that the plaintiffs had proposed a joint trial.But the District Court and a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that the cases were not removable because the plaintiffs had not explicitly asked that the cases be tried together, which is essential to the definition of a removable “mass action” under CAFA.The Ninth Circuit granted "en banc" review and ruled in favor of Lefkowitz’s client, that the plaintiffs’ request for coordination “for all purposes” necessarily encompassed a request for a joint trial.