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151458P.pdf   05/01/2015  Patricia Hood  v.  Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1458
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Joplin   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil Case - Class Action Fairness Act. District court's order remanding 
   case to state court based on local-controversy exception is reversed. 
   District court erred in finding that over two-thirds of potential class 
   members were Missouri citizens based on extrapolation of Missouri citizens 
   who responded to questionnaire to the citizenship for those potential 
   class members who did not respond. Because employees did not meet their 
   burden of proof that local-controversy exception applied, the district 
   court erred by resolving doubt in favor of the party seeking the remand.