The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that a federal district court did not err in remanding a class action against Denbury Onshore L.L.C. over a failed well back to Louisiana state court, finding that the local single event exclusion under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) applies to this case.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit shut down a bid by oil and gas producer Denbury and two other defendants to remove the case to federal court under the CAFA, and affirmed the rulings by district court and magistrate judges to keep the case in state court.
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