( February 17, 2026, 8:33 AM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — On remand from the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which opined that federal courts can remand consumer protection cases to state court for lack of equitable jurisdiction only after giving defendants an opportunity to keep the case in federal court, a California federal judge granted a joint motion to stay a putative class action lawsuit against an online collectibles seller pending the plaintiff’s filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court....