11th Circuit:  CAFA Local Event Exception Doesn’t Apply To Workers’ Exposure Case

Mealey's (March 18, 2020, 1:42 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 17 vacated a district court’s remand order in a case by foundry workers alleging hazardous exposure, ruling that the complaint doesn’t fall within the Class Action Fairness Act’s (CAFA) local event exception as it doesn’t concern “a continuous, related course of conduct culminating in one-harm causing event or occurrence” (Kelvin Spencer, et al. v. Specialty Foundry Products Inc., et al., No. 19-14427, 11th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 8341)....