Legal Opinion
Arbuckle Mountain Ranch of Texas, Inc. v. Chesapeake Energy Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 7, 2016No. 15-10955PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:
The Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) confers expansive federal jurisdiction over class actions, with few and narrow exceptions. Here, after the case was removed by the defendants under CAFA, Plaintiff Arbuckle moved to remand the case to state court under the “local controversy exception.” The district court granted the plaintiffs motion, remanding the case. The defendants appealed. We REVERSE and REMAND.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The defendants are a group of related oil and gas companies who operate producing wells in Johnson and Tarrant Counties,…
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