Mealey's (January 12, 2018, 1:58 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — Two personal injury lawsuits related to naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM), one of which was filed before the effective date of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), may be removed to a federal court under CAFA as a mass action after the plaintiffs sought to consolidate the two cases, a divided Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Jan. 9 (Warren Lester, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al., Shirley Bottley, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al., No. 14-31383, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 547)....