United States Tenth Circuit

In a class action based on defendants' alleged contamination of plaintiffs' property through operation of a zinc smelter, the district court's order granting plaintiffs' motion to remand the case to state court is affirmed where plaintiffs' claims fell within the "local controversy exception" to the Class Action Fairness Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2009
• Published 09/04/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before TACHA, ANDERSON, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Marie R. Yeates, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Houston, TX (Morgan L. Copeland, Jr.; Lewis C. Sutherland, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Houston, TX; Sandra G. Rodriguez, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Austin, TX; Reid E. Robison, McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma City, OK; Kevin E. O'Malley, Gallagher & Kennedy, P.A., Phoenix, AZ, with her on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants., Nelson J. Roach, (Keith L. Langston with him on the brief), of Nix, Patterson & Roach, LLP, Dangerfield, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.