Tough Mudder Class Action Sent Back to State Court

Tough Mudder Inc. failed to prove that a class action alleging the company should have reimbursed participants after it relocated a race belonged in federal court, the First Circuit ruled (Pazol v. Tough Mudder Inc., 2016 BL 131625, 1st Cir., 15-1640, 4/26/16).

Tough Mudder didn’t meet its burden of showing that the amount in controversy exceeded the Class Action Fairness Act’s $5 million threshold, Judge David Jeremiah Barron wrote April 26 for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

CAFA, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(2), gives federal courts jurisdiction over putative class actions when the ...