Wilson Fails to Show False Advertising Claim Should be Removed to Federal Court

A federal judge from the Central District of California has denied Wilson Sporting Goods Co.’s motion to have a class action complaint removed to federal court, finding that the defendant used a formula that “inflated” the amount in controversy and that its arguments for diversity of the class members was “meritless.”   The underlying claim of the lawsuit, which was brought by plaintiff Joseph Urbanczyk in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, was that Wilson engages in unlawful,