Last year’s passage of the Class Action Fairness Act appears to have increased the number of class-action filings and removals of cases from state to federal courts over the last couple of months, said the Federal Judicial Center in an interim report on CAFA’s judicial impact. The second installment of the FJC’s long-term study of CAFA’s effect on the federal courts found a spike in class-action filings in or case removals to federal district courts during the months after the statute took effect on...