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Toxic contamination suit not removable under CAFA 

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    • May 24, 2013

An environmental contamination suit brought by more than 500 homeowners was not a removable “mass action” under the Class Action Fairness Act, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming judgment.
The plaintiffs are more than 500 citizens of the Virgin Islands who claimed that toxic dust » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2013/05/24/toxic-contamination-suit-not-removable-under-cafa/

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