(September 26, 2017, 1:52 PM EDT) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge in Alabama on Sept. 25 remanded a groundwater contamination lawsuit to state court on grounds that the defendants failed to meet their burden establishing federal jurisdiction and did not establish that a local party was fraudulently joined to the case (Waters Works and Sewer Board of Gadsden v. 3M Company, et al., No. 16-1755, N.D. Ala.; 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 156272)....